Rule Quotes

Short lines on rules, order, and who gets to make them.

This page collects lines built around a single small word with outsized weight: the rule you must not break, the rule about not forgetting the first one, and musings on what makes a ruler legitimate. See also First quotes.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Quotes by Agnes Repplier

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

Quotes by Abbie Hoffman

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It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

Quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr.

For Obama, 'rule of law' is merely his political silly-putty.

Quotes by Wayne LaPierre

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Warren Buffett

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

Quotes by Tony Snow

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.

Quotes by Tom Allen

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.

Quotes by Timothy Noah

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

Quotes by Thomas a Kempis

There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.

Quotes by Steve Erickson

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Quotes by Sallust

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

Quotes by Robert Burton

Facebook has a rule that you're not supposed to be anonymous.

Quotes by Rebecca MacKinnon

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

Quotes by R. D. Laing

Money has to serve, not to rule.

Quotes by Pope Francis

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Quotes by Paul R. Ehrlich

The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule.

Quotes by Paul Di Filippo

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

Quotes by Patricia Clarkson

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