Rule Quotes - page 3

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. (Benjamin Disraeli)
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. View quote
Joseph Conrad
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. View quote
Henry Ford
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. View quote
René Descartes
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline. View quote
Maurice Allais
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. View quote
John Adams
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. View quote
William James
I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I'm proud of it. View quote
Paul Krugman
A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. (Henry David Thoreau)
My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune." View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Early to Bed and Early to Rise is a Bad Rule for any one who wishes to become acquainted with our most Prominent and Influential People. View quote
George Ade
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. View quote
Cicero
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Write what you like; there is no other rule. View quote
O. Henry
Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night. View quote
John Ruskin
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. (Cesare Lombroso)
But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people. View quote
Stephen Harper
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer. View quote
Joseph Addison
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory. View quote
Arthur Eddington
The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats. View quote
Stonewall Jackson