Rule Quotes

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

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.

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

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.

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.