You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
Marilyn Monroe

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
Wayne Dyer

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
Bill Cosby

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
Erma Bombeck

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David Thoreau

Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob Dylan

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
Ted Turner

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim Morrison

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Katharine Hepburn

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Jonathan Swift

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. Eliot