War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
Ross Perot

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
Bill Shankly

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
Thomas More

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
Brian Greene

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
B. R. Ambedkar

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.
Billy Corgan

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.
Hayden Fry

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.
Lou Reed

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.
Ty Cobb

Rules and models destroy genius and art.
William Hazlitt

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
William Hazlitt

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William Hazlitt

I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.
Tim McGraw

I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?
Emeril Lagasse

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
Andre Breton

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.
Jeff Beck

Appearance rules the world.
Friedrich Schiller

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

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
Claude Debussy

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
William Howard Taft