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

Where no gods are, spectres rule.
Novalis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.
Joe Rogan

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

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
Bo Bennett

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

That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
Rachel Bilson

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
David Herbert Lawrence