Simple Rules

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or rules:

“How many desolate creatures on the earth
Have learnt the simple dues of fellowship
And social comfort, in a hospital.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

“Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints—the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk—we think we’re using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we’re its slavish agents.”
—Harry Mathews (b. 1930)