The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
Elayne Boosler

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

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

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
Giacomo Casanova

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Umberto Eco

If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.
Meir Kahane

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Herodotus

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

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
Abbie Hoffman

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
James Cash Penney

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.
James Cash Penney

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.
James Cash Penney

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
Sallust

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Theodor Adorno

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

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Milan Kundera

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
Ava Gardner

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
Natalie Portman

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
Harry Emerson Fosdick