Rule Quotes

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

There is no rule that says a footballer needs to be 'this high' and 'this wide.'

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there.

I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.

China is very entrepreneurial but has no rule of law. Europe has rule of law but isn't entrepreneurial. Combine rule of law, entrepreneurialism and a generally pro-business policy, and you have Apple.

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism purposes.

The Golden Rule will always be good advice!

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

You know, my mother had a rule which was 'people are just people.'

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

My rule is never to look at anything on the Internet.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box.