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

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

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
Abu Bakar Bashir

Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.
George Steinbrenner

I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.
Mark Messier

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.
Jackie Collins

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

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

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
David McCullough

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.
Bill Lee

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

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

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.
Andrew Shue

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
Pierre Corneille

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
Anthony Trollope

Money is the best rule of commerce.
William Petty