Rule
Definition: One of a set of explicit or understood regulations or principles governing conduct or
procedure within a particular area of activity. Exercise ultimate power or authority over (an area and its people).
Number of Quotes: 8
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do
it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry Adams
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll
Here's the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you.
That's the true business precept.
Charles Dickens
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that
were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind ... Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if
he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
Joseph Heller
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
Katherine Hepburn
As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of
my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.
George Soros
My rule is always to do the business of the day in the day.
Arthur Wellesley
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