rule quotes

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

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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

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.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.