Rules Quotes

3000 Rules quotes by 2172 unique authors

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with… — Bill Bryson
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every… — Henry David Thoreau
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.… — Ayn Rand
Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules. — Marvin Bell
The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory. — Ivan Doig
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive… — Ludwig von Mises
It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible. If a… — St. Vincent
I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with… — Byron Dorgan
Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the… — Donald Hall
The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind. — Jason Mraz
The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way. It… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback. — Jim McMahon
The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you’re… — Tony Robbins
Good discipline is more than just punishing or laying down the law. It is liking children and letting them see that they are liked. It… — Stanley Greenspan
There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on… — Marvin Minsky
The soul of politeness is not a question of rules but of tranquility, humility, and simplicity. And in the taking of tea it finds perhaps… — Dorothea Johnson
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you,… — Catharine MacKinnon
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness. — Frank Capra
In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do — Mike Krzyzewski
Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of… — Napoleon Hill
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city. — Solomon
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform… — Charles Caleb Colton
History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to… — Jane Hirshfield

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