Rules Quotes - page 3

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. (Herbert Simon)

It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things and acted according to Nature whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.

William Penn

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

Cecelia Ahern

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

Helen Frankenthaler

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

Octavia Butler

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Edith Wharton

I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... rules.

Mr. T

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.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Francis Bacon

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

T. S. Eliot

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. (Bob Dylan)

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Jonathan Swift

I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.

Katy Perry

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

Maximilien Robespierre

Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities . . . are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.

Oliver Cromwell

And yet not choice but habit rules the unreflecting herd.

William Wordsworth

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

Erma Bombeck

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Claude Debussy

For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.

Vitruvius

All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.

Friedrich Schelling

We got a real clear picture of what they all value. Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first hundred days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, 'unchain Wall Street.' (Joe Biden)

Geoff: We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

Alan Bennett

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Jacques Barzun

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

Sophocles

There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

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