Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Mortimer Adler

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
Joseph Conrad

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.
Pauly Shore

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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
Donald Rumsfeld

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
Francis Ford Coppola

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
Bruce Springsteen

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Orison Swett Marden

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Herodotus

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
Johannes Brahms

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
Mahmoud Abbas

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.
Ellen G. White

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
James Thurber

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Gustave Flaubert

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
Chinua Achebe

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene V. Debs

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
Peter Singer

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
Tallulah Bankhead