Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

— Dana Snyder

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

— Voltaire

Never say never. I myself say no to things, and then I wear them. So, I'm now kind of sticking to the rule that…

— Brad Goreski

The only rule is there are no rules.

— Aristotle Onassis

The only rule is that there are no rules.

— Del Close

“the first rule—he calls it the rule of rules—is the art of challenging what is appealing.”

— Christopher Hitchens

I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.

— William Carlos Williams

Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.

— Marc Andreessen

“The trouble with rules, though, is that you'll always be tempted to break one- for the right reasons, due to unavoidable circumstances, because it…

— Stacey Kade

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

— Thomas Peterffy

“When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good…

— Dale Ludwig and Greg Owen-Boger

“Would you like to sit?" Kellen asked her. "You'd better do it soon," Owen whispered close to her ear, "or I'm going to bend…

— Olivia Cunning

“one must first know the rules to break them,”

— David B. Agus

The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

“Every game has rules. Life’s a game that has its respective rules; obey the rules, win the game!”

— Israelmore Ayivor