#Rules Quotes

“The icy precepts of respect.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“I'm searching for loopholes.”

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

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

“There are no rules for felicity.”

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

“Follow the rules or follow the fools.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us”

“I play better tennis because the court is there.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Never take candy from strangers.”

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

“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.”

“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”

“Always obey your parents - when they are present.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Good taste is the enemy of creativity.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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 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.”

“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.”