Rules Quotes

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.

I think we should only get 3 honks a month on the car horn. Then, someone cuts you off, you press the horn, and nothing happens. You're like, "Crap! I wish I hadn't seen Ricky on the sidewalk!"

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

Invention hovers always a little above the rules.

No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile. The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won't be found at the bottom) Don't sweat the small stuff, You are who you are meant to be, Dance as if no one's watching, Love as if it's all you know, Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today

Don't expect people to abide by your rules if you don't clearly communicate what they are. And don't expect them to live by your rules if you're not willing to compromise and live by at least some of theirs.

Remember, only a policeman is allowed to express himself on an expressway.

When a rules man gives you a ruling, that’s it. Amen.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

I'm searching for loopholes.

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.

If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it!

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Oh! 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.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

Always obey your parents - when they are present.

I followed my heart without breaking any rules.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Never take candy from strangers.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

I don't like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.

I play better tennis because the court is there.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

Discipline must be maintained.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Advil has a candy coating. It's delicious. Then it says on the bottle, do not have more than two. Then why do they have a candy coating? I cannot help myself. Let me have ten Advil, I have a sweet tooth.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Follow the rules or follow the fools.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make investments without having to fear unpredictable new government interventions before these investments can pay off.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

I do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.