Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
John Calvin

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
Marcus Aurelius

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
Dwight L. Moody

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
Julius Caesar

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Soren Kierkegaard

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
Carl Jung

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert Camus

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Andy Rooney

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
Andy Rooney

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Calvin Coolidge

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
Jefferson Davis