Rules Quotes

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

Learn and obey the rules very well so you will know how to break them properly.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

There are no rules for felicity.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.

China is both an adversary, but also a potential partner in the international community if it's following the rules. So my attitude coming into office was that we are going to insist that China plays by the same rules as everybody else.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

Once I saw a duck walking down the street so I went into Subway and ordered two pieces of bread, and they informed me that they could not do that, like there was some speical rule at Subway that two pieces of bread weren't allowed to touch. So the woman asked me what I wanted on the sandwich and I said I do not care, it is for a duck, and she was like oh then it's free. I was not aware that ducks eat for free at Subway. It's like give me a chicken fajita sub, but don't worry about ringing it up, it is for a duck.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Murphy's golden rule: Whoever has the gold, makes the rules.

One of the first things they teach you in Driver's Ed is where to put your hands on the steering wheel. They tell you put 'em at ten o'clock and two o' clock. Never mind that . I put mine at 9:45 and 2:17. Gives me an extra half hour to get where I'm goin'.

People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations.

Know my feelings about traffic laws? Cop didn't see it? I didn't do it.

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

I have a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my hotel door. It's time to go to "Don't Disturb". It's been "Do Not" for too long. We should embrace the contraction.

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.

As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.

You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.

Whenever I work on a film, I have three rules. Only three and I tell them to every screenwriter. I say let's retain the spirit and the intent of the overall story. Let's make it the best film that we possibly can.

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

The icy precepts of respect.

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I cannot defend it, but it happened.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.

I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.

Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

I have a Sharpie. I love Sharpies. You know what they say on them? Not for letter writing. That sucks. Now I have to communicate with my dad using numbers.

The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.

No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.