Rules Quotes

Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king. (John Milton)
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. View quote
George Orwell
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. View quote
Carl Jung
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. View quote
Albert Einstein
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. View quote
Edward Weston
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. View quote
William Howard Taft
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. View quote
Ansel Adams
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. View quote
James Thurber
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game. View quote
Bill Shankly
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different. (Kiran Desai)
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. View quote
Joseph Campbell
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones. View quote
George Orwell
I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules. View quote
F. Lee Bailey
I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks. View quote
Quentin Tarantino
There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance. View quote
Victor Hugo
If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. View quote
William Hazlitt
Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules. (Maria Callas)
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. View quote
Truman Capote
The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules. View quote
Gary Gygax
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. View quote
Michael Korda
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. View quote
Joshua Reynolds