Rules Quotes

"Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences."

"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere"

"A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules."

"When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer."

"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."

"The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose."

"Rules of conduct, whatever they may be are not sufficient to produce good results unless the ends sought are good"

"If President Bush can make his own rules for domestic surveillance, Big Brother has run amok. We need a thorough investigation of these activities. Congress and the American people deserve answers, and they deserve answers now."

"If President Bush can make his own rules for domestic surveillance, Big Brother has run amok."

"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."

"Absolutely speaking, do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case."

"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."

"Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it."

"It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old."

"I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I looked for validation from my fellow contemporaries, I instead found jealousy and envy. I did not find team spirit. This led to dissatisfaction, an unease."

"They have rules that they write down. I just want them to enforce them consistently . Like I know, I got tackled under the basket. If I had done that, they would have given me a flagrant foul."

"That's going to be left up to the commissioner and the rules committee."

"That's going to be left up to the commissioner and the rules committee. They would probably have to go back and look at some of those things that happened."

"What is harmful to kids is to give them a first-year teacher. That is absolutely the wrong thing you can do in terms of learning gains."

"One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy."