Rule Quotes

"Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. "
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
-Henry David Thoreau

"But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it."
-Henry David Thoreau

"A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."
-Mark Twain

"It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake."
-Mark Twain

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
-Mark Twain

"A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."
-Buddha

"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
-George Bernard Shaw

"As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."
-Henry Ford

"I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does."
-Warren Buffett

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
-Mahatma Ghandi

"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."
-Alexander Graham Bell

"Rule your mind or it will rule you."
-Horace Mann

"It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted."
-Seneca

"An unpopular rule is never long maintained."
-Seneca

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"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."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Let everyone regulate his conduct . . . by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him."
-William Wilberforce

"In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law."
-Calvin Coolidge

"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."
-Will Durant

"As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted."
-Lucy Maud Montgomery

"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