Rule Quotes

3048 Rule quotes by 2073 unique authors

A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done. — Andy Grove
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. — Oliver Goldsmith
Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard the waste of… — Unknown Author
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you — Charles Dickens
The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but… — Woodrow Wilson
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others… — Zig Ziglar
A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very… — Niccolo Machiavelli
My sisters and I can still recite Dad's grilling rules: Rule No. 1: Dad is in charge. Rule No. 2: Repeat Rule No. 1. — Connie Schultz
It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide… — Sun Tzu
When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people.… — David Korten
We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to be an automatic switch. If… — Ralph Miller
What can I say? Librarians rule. — Regis Philbin
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may… — Thomas Carlyle
As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true. — Craig Murray
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own… — Hannah Arendt
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit. — Thucydides
The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow. — Yakubu Gowon
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart. — John Henry Newman
Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world. — Florenz Ziegfeld
Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand… — Virgil
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage. — Henry James Byron
The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as… — Erle Stanley Gardner
I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's… — Mike Krzyzewski
Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits… — Friedrich Ratzel

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