All generalisations are wrong...
Posted by ESC on July 03, 2010 at 12:38
In Reply to: All generalisations are wrong... posted by Bob Smith on June 30, 2010 at 20:17:
: What is the origin of the saying 'All generalisations are wrong, except this one' - who said/wrote it?
Can't find that. Found this:
No generalization is wholly true -- not even this one. Oliver Wendell Holmes, U.S. writer and physician (1809-1894). Yale Book of Quotations, edited by Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006. Page 368.