Rule Quotes

• A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Rule

• Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Poorer

• Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Rule
  • Lead
  • Unite

• I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren’t willing to take chances, which is why you have a committee in the first place — so you can share the blame.

  

  Hal Riney
  • Deal
  • Chances
  • Tyrant

• The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Truth
  • Slave
  • Savage

• There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . . .

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Slave

• I made a rule for myself in my early 20s not to become a record collector in the sense that I reference all my old records. I can't live like that. I'd just be trapped in comparison, trying to emulate something, so I made a rule to just buy what I need, just the records I need.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Record
  • Buy
  • Trapped

• By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Nature
  • Authority
  • Sins

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

  

  Mr. T
  • Believe
  • Rule
  • Golden Rule

• If you feel like getting a divorce, you are no exception to the general rule.

  

  Elizabeth Hawes
  • Divorce
  • Rule
  • Exception

• The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of mind. It embraces the nations of highest civilization. They are all beneath the cross. It is maintained by simple authority. Other mental monarchs rule by logic; Christ's word is law--it is satisfying to His subjects. His truth in the hands of His disciples, like the bread He broke upon the mountains, is an ample supply for the millions that gather at His table.

  

  Edward Thomson
  • Christ
  • Civilization
  • Authority

• The creation of rule is more creative than the destruction of them. Creation demands a higher level of reasoning and draws connections between cause and effect. The best rules are never stable or permanent, but evolve naturally according to context or need.

  

  Andrea Zittel
  • Creation
  • Rule

• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

  

  Horace
  • Mind
  • Rule

• That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

  

  Aristotle
  • Better
  • Rule
  • Subjects

• Let optimists rule the world.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • World
  • Rule
  • Optimistic

• You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Country
  • Rule
  • Turning

• To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Believe
  • Extent

• Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Moment
  • Birth

• I do not subscribe to any rigid and mechanical rule ... I intend to be flexible and to learn from experience.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Experience
  • Rule

• Man, we couldn't even approach them. There were so many rules on that tour. It was fun, but, the stupidest rule? If they came walking down the hall, you couldn't make eye contact with them. If they came over to you, then you could talk to them, but they had to approach first. I mean, c'mon man, this is ridiculous.

  

  Abe Cunningham
  • Rule
  • Contact
  • Tour

• In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Passionate

• The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Exist
  • Phenomenon
  • Attacks

• I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows.

  

  Vir Das
  • Comedy
  • Rule
  • Upset People

• To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Compassion
  • Deaths

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