Rule Quotes

Well, I am no village cunning woman, no frightened merry-begot, but a woman born to riches, andeducated from the time I can remember, and given all that I could possibly desire. And now in mytwenty-second year, already a mother and soon perhaps to be a widow, I rule in this place. I ruledbefore my mother gave to me all her secrets, and her great familiar, Lasher, and I mean to study thisthing, and make use of it, and allow it to enhance my considerable strength.

~ Anne Rice

And she had been in love enough times to rule out the possibility that this was merely some feat of nostalgia.

~ Galt Niederhoffer

Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible.

~ Sameh Talhamy

Rules for Disappearing by Witness Protection Prisoner #18A7R04M: Don’t fall into a routine. Shake things up. Doing the same thing over and over makes you feel comfortable. And feeling comfortable is bad.

~ Ashley Elston

Lonely world if you don’t have anyone to rule over.

~ K. Weikel

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

~ Franz Grillparzer

If a person does not rule over money, then money will rule over him

~ Sunday Adelaja

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

~ René Descartes

Tyrants have only one problem in life.They simply just wanna rule everything.

~ Toba Beta

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

~ Vera Nazarian

The first rule on breaking a rule is to know everything about the rule.

~ Nuno Roque

Authority is ability to rule. Dominion is rulership.

~ Sherry K. White

Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It was important to have men who would question you and see flaws in your plans, so long as you could control them. It was all about control.

~ Brandon Sanderson

What you do not want others to do to you do not do to others.

~ Confucius

What thou thyself hatest do to no man.

~ Apocrypha Tobit

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you an' do it fust.

~ Edward N. Westcott

Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee do not do that to them.

~ Hillel Ha-Babli

As ye would that men should do to you do ye also to them likewise.

~ Bible

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory let us now commit it to life.

~ Edwin Markham

All things whatsoever ye wou'd that men should do to you do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

~ Matthew

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

~ George Bernard Shaw

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

~ Thomas Jefferson

A difficulty for every solution.

~ Herbert Samuel

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

~ Dean William R. Inge

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

~ Hugh Sidey

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

~ Laurence J. Peter

At certain times of grave national stress when that rag-bag called the British Constitution is in grave danger of coming unstuck thank heaven for the big safety-pin at the top that keeps it together.

~ Anonymous

I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University.

~ William F. Buckley

The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities.

~ Lucius D. Clay

I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

~ Harold Wilson

In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau

It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.

~ Harold Macmillan

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

~ Dean William R. Inge

It would be desirable if every government when it comes to power should have its old speeches burnt.

~ Philip Snowden

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

~ Abraham Lincoln

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

~ Rosamond Lehmann

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

~ Cyril Smith