Rule Quotes

3048 Rule quotes by 2073 unique authors

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
From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such… — George S. Patton
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule. — Solon
I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark. — H. L. Mencken
The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the… — Rudy Giuliani
Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. — Louis Dudek
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him... Those who will not be… — William Penn
New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of… — Bill Maher
That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question… — Mark Twain
There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is… — John F. Kennedy
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the… — Laozi
There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity. — Confucius
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such… — Colin Powell
If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by operating your business… — Mary Kay Ash

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