#rule

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful person #best #best man #cleverest #competition

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#art world #both #cater #elite #masses

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#hand #how #i #i think #innately

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#am #because #break #everything #find

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#father #first #kid #look #rule

A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#customers #enter #event #fundamental #insists

Write what you like; there is no other rule. ↗

— O. Henry

#other #rule #write #you

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#ever #liberties #may #never #nor

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#miss #obey #rules #you

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances. ↗

— Herodotus

#circumstances #rule