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| As a rule, for no one does life drag more disagreeably than for him who tries to speed it up | | Jean Paul Richter | |
| Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. | | Mark Twain | |
| Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present | | Jean Paul Richter | |
| I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M | | Charles M. Schulz | |
| In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside | | Alexander Pope | |
| My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. | | Winston Churchill | |
| My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence | | Benjamin Franklin | |
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| Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind | | Douglas MacArthur | |
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| The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the rule. | | Samuel Butler | |
| To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege | | Plato | |
