The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Jean Racine

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.
Ulrich Beck

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
Bo Bennett

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
David Herbert Lawrence

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.
Joe Rogan

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
Barbara Jordan

I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.
Lalu Prasad Yadav

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
B. R. Ambedkar

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield

That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
Rachel Bilson

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
Francois Rabelais

I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.
Terence

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Larry Flynt

The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
Katharine Whitehorn

As a rule, one should never place form over content.
Manuel Puig

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.
Pierre Corneille