"the exception that proves the rule"
99% of people who use that phrase have no clue as to what it means, and if Francis Bacon was alive to see them rolling their eyes and spouting it, he would beat them to death with a frozen chicken for ignoring logic and common sense
99% of people who use that phrase have no clue as to what it means, and if Francis Bacon was alive to see them rolling their eyes and spouting it, he would beat them to death with a frozen chicken for ignoring logic and common sense
"The woman most eager to jump out of her petticoat to assert her rights is the first to jump back into it when threatened with a switching for misusing them,"
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary