Rules Quotes

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Charles Osgood

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force

Mahatma Gandhi

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Jodi Picoult

But the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.

Plato

What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the Earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

Stephen King

None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

Neil Gaiman

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Albert Camus

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

Henry David Thoreau

When you break rules, break 'em good and hard

Terry Pratchett

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

Benjamin Franklin

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

Bertrand Russell

Because we didn't come with a users manual there are no rules on the roles we give fear. Fear has the role we give it. We are able to empower or poison ourselves to whatever degree we want. This is the beauty of our design.

Steve Maraboli

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

Edmund Burke

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.

Blaise Pascal

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Mark Twain

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Albert Einstein

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Albert Camus