Rule Quotes - page 2

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception. (James Thurber)
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. View quote
Umberto Eco
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. View quote
Andy Rooney
There is no act more moral between men than that of rule And obedience. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. View quote
Ernest Renan
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. View quote
Gore Vidal
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business. View quote
Aaron Burr
We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule. View quote
Hashemi Rafsanjani
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices. View quote
Emil Cioran
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. View quote
Samuel Adams
Majority rule will only work if you're considering individual rights. You can't have five wolves and one sheep vote on what they want to have for supper. (Larry Flynt)
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Nature provides exceptions to every rule. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. View quote
Will Durant
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid. View quote
Bob Dylan
Two things form the bedrock of any open society-freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. View quote
Salman Rushdie
The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in. View quote
Paris Hilton
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