Rule Quotes - page 4

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible. (Stonewall Jackson)
A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease. View quote
Elizabeth Gaskell
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. View quote
Robert Burton
Pride is great up to the point you begin to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The rule of Satanism is: if it works for you, great. When it stops working for you, when you've painted yourself into a corner and the only way out is to say, I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I wish we could compromise somehow, then do it. View quote
Anton LaVey
I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... rules. View quote
Mr. T
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. View quote
Joyce Brothers
Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things. (Henry Fielding)
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. View quote
Alexander Graham Bell
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
The newspapers Sir, they are the most villanous, licentious, abominable, infernal Not that I ever read them No, I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states. View quote
Václav Havel
One man's style must not be the rule of another's. View quote
Jane Austen
No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side. -Zedd, Wizard's First Rule. View quote
Terry Goodkind
The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. View quote
William Butler Yeats
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. View quote
Carl Jung
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done. (Andy Grove)
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow. View quote
Julia Cameron
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate. View quote
Vera Brittain
Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. View quote
William Wordsworth
Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws. View quote
Confucius