Rule

Famous quotes containing the word rule:

“Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.”
—Mrs. H. O. Ward (1824–1899)

“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 general rule.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“A right rule for a club would be,—Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)