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Let your rule in reference to your social desires be this. Pray for the bad, pity the weak, enjoy the good, and reverence both the great and the small, as each playing their part in the divine symphony of the universe.
-Professor Blackie
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
-William Blake
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The Four Rules of Life:
1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.
-Joan Borysenko
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
-Jacob Bronowski
The Sense of Human Dignity, lecture, "In Science and Human Values, pt. 3, sct. 5, 1961", March 19, 1953
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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.
-Edmund Burke
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There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone 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 an exception to the general rule.
-Samuel Butler
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I don't go by the rule book I lead from the heart, not the head.
-Princess of Wales Diana
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Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.
-Paul Erlich
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
-Benjamin Franklin
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It is inherent in the nature of sovereignty not to be amenable to the suit of any individual without its consent. This is the general sense and the general practice of mankind; and the exemption, as one of the attributes of sovereignty, is now enjoyed by the government of every State in the Union. . . . The contracts between a nation and individuals are only binding on the conscience of the sovereign, and have no pretensions to a compulsory force. They confer no right of action, independent of the sovereign will. To...authorize suits against States for the debts they owe...could not be done without waging war against the contracting State..., a power which would involve such a consequence, would be altogether forced and unwarranted.
-Alexander Hamilton
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If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
-Katharine Hepburn
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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
-General Douglas MacArthur
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There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
-Charles Osgood
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Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
-Henry David Thoreau
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After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp, and fashioned them at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided: men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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Nordstrom's Rules for Employees: Rule # 1: Use your good judgment in all situations There are no additional rules
-Source Unknown
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Don't learn safety rules simply by accident
-Source Unknown
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Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
-Source Unknown
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When everything else fails read the instructions.
-Source Unknown
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Whoever has the gold makes all the rules.
-Source Unknown
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Books about Rules
