Rules Quotes

3000 Rules quotes by 2172 unique authors

Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change your opinion if… — Marcus Aurelius
What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary… — Garrison Keillor
With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules — we're all working harder and longer than we… — Chesley Sullenberger
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my… — Mahatma Gandhi
... human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions ... — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules… — Henry David Thoreau
I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything. — Taki Theodoracopulos
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed… — Winston Churchill
In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life. — Marcus Aurelius
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to… — George Bernard Shaw
The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before… — B.F. Skinner
There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from… — Richard P. Feynman
I will not live by rules that make no sense to me — Evan Tanner
Rules of Play is an exhaustive, clear, cogent, and complete resource for understanding games and game design. Salen and Zimmerman describe an encyclopedia of game… — Nathan Shedroff
Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and… — Craig Lancaster
In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it… — Walter Lippmann
Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can… — John Updike
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break. — Jeanette Winterson
The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Answering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a question; secondly, regard… — Bertrand Russell
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar. — Robert Breault
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone.… — Athol Fugard
I am a very strict mother, and as a mother, it's my responsibility to guide my kids and tell them to go how far and… — Kajol
Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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