Rule

Famous quotes containing the word rule:

“I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)