Rule Quotes
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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The history of this world was divided into two phases: the present age, which was controlled by the forces of evil, and the age to come, in which God would rule supreme.
Bart Ehrman
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There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.
Ronnie Wood
The Rolling Stones
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I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.
Harvey Fierstein
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Al kept it coming and nobody asked how and his only rule was: share. Be warm, be innocent, open your everything, speak easy. Share
Catherynne M. Valente
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Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.
Nicholas Sparks
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Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.
Topher Grace
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Nothing is more stultifying than running a meeting by Robert’s Rules of Order and to impose the political process of majority rule on small working groups where total commitment is needed.
Edgar Schein
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As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
Alexandre Dumas
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Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.
Edwin A. Abbott
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
George Eliot
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As Putnam demonstrates, poorer, less-educated parents tend to believe that their primary task is getting their children to obey, as opposed to better-educated parents, who emphasize helping their children understand why they ought to obey a given rule. Reading, reasoning, and problem-solving with their parents help children develop the higher-order skills that make them better equipped to face the challenges of a fluid, complex world.
Benjamin E. Sasse
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What can I say? Librarians rule.
Regis Philbin
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Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme.
Homer
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It was a good rule not to expect the ideal but to enjoy what is possible.
Elena Ferrante
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I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
