Rule Quotes

3048 Rule quotes by 2073 unique authors

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring. — Steven Moffat
It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule. — Publilius Syrus
But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we… — Hunter S. Thompson
Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time. — P.J. O'Rourke
If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order. — Paul Valery
The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule;… — Emile M. Cioran
My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go… — Benjamin Franklin
Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and… — Samuel Johnson
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. — John Dryden
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual. — Elbert Hubbard
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve. — Sallust
It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the… — Joseph Campbell
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not… — Alfred North Whitehead
I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties. — Linda Ellerbee
I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing… — John Steinbeck
The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again,… — Milan Kundera
In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth… — John Stuart Mill
The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that,… — Giacomo Leopardi
There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty… — Joseph Heller
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error. — Georges Duhamel
The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent… — Arthur Bloch
I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but… — Frank Zappa
Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit… — Martin Amis

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