Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
P. G. Wodehouse

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
R. D. Laing

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
John Lubbock

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
Emile M. Cioran

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
Emile M. Cioran

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

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
Steve Forbes

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
Ivo Andric

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Walter Scott

Where no gods are, spectres rule.
Novalis

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry B. Adams

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.
James Callaghan

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
Diogenes of Sinope

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.
John Malkovich

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.
Roger Waters

It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Thomas Kempis

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

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.
Leonhard Euler

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
Christopher Morley

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Sydney Smith