Rule Quotes

If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan ‘neath slavery’s heavy rod.

The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.

The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others.

As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

It’s kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn’t be doing it and I don’t know how to do it and I’m going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don’t care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I’m excited about, I’m in.

It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.