Rule

Famous quotes containing the word rule:

    “Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.”
    —Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

    “Mothers easily become jealous of their sons’ friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)