#rule

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#cannot #costly #depends #enterprising #expensive

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do. ↗

— Richard Steele

#any #care #endless #frivolous #minds

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#civilization #did #had #i #many

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. ↗

— Frank Crane

#habits #keep #rules #safer #than

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

#author #back #everything #goes #grabbed

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes. ↗

— Phil Crosby

#explain #five #i #live #minutes

I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules. ↗

— Kieran Culkin

#cider #did #different #feel #house

It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#actually #better #countries #generally #kind

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#afterwards #became #each #i #other

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head. ↗

— Princess Diana

#go #head #heart #i #lead