Rule Quotes

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. (Sydney Smith)
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The golden rule is that there is not golden rule. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Chances rule men and not men chances. View quote
Herodotus
Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. View quote
Warren Buffett
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. View quote
Charles Dickens
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. View quote
Edward Abbey
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule. View quote
Juan Gris
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. (Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar)
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. View quote
Pietro Aretino
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. View quote
Winston Churchill
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever. View quote
Laozi
It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be dethrimental to keep it. View quote
Sean O`Casey
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it. View quote
Anne Hutchinson
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception. (James Thurber)
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. View quote
Umberto Eco
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. View quote
Andy Rooney
There is no act more moral between men than that of rule And obedience. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. View quote
Ernest Renan