Rule Quotes

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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people. — George Ade
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. — Alexander Graham Bell
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his… — Alfred Adler
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Mortimer Adler
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour… — Annie Besant
Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may… — Annie Besant
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. — Aneurin Bevan
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to… — Benazir Bhutto
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. — Theodor Adorno
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law,… — Tony Blair
I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks. — Andrea Bocelli
The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born. — Elayne Boosler
The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a… — James Bovard
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as… — Johannes Brahms
When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American… — John O. Brennan
The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal. — Jimmy Breslin
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. — Anita Brookner
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or… — Joyce Brothers
America is a land where men govern, but women rule. — John Mason Brown
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you. — Alan Alda

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