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Quotes About Rule

Are there any exceptions to the rule? Only two that experts tell me are worth considering in so far as one needs the tax efficiency. Vanguard and TIAA-CREF both offer extremely low-cost variable annuities with a list of low-cost index funds to choose from. They do not charge commissions, so there are no surrender charges if you want to cash in.
~ Anthony Robbins
Rule 1: don't lose money. Rule 2: see Rule 1. —WARREN BUFFETT'S RULES OF INVESTING
~ Anthony Robbins
One of your rules for diversification is to never have anything weighted more than 30%, is that correct? DS: Yes.
~ Anthony Robbins
is coming to that, that there will be no life left anywhere in the country. No one is any longer fit to rule himself, or those belonging to him. The Government is to find us all in everything, and the press is to find the Government.
~ Anthony Trollope
if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress
~ Ariel Levy
One who asks the law to rule, therefore, is held to be asking god and intellect alone to rule, while one who asks man adds the beast. Desire is a thing of this sort; and spiritedness perverts rulers and the best men. Hence law is intellect without appetite.
~ Aristotle
When then the law has spoken in general terms, and there arises a case of exception to the general rule, it is proper, in so far as the lawgiver omits the case and by reason of his universality of statement is wrong, to set right the omission by ruling it as the lawgiver himself would rule were he there present, and would have provided by law had he foreseen the case would arise.
~ Aristotle
For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary but also expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.
~ Aristotle
the only rule regulating shipboard sex was "So long as you don't do it in the corridors and frighten the simps.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this matter.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The ongoing function of God's law is not to serve as a standard to be met for justification but as a guide for Christian living. Thus, according to the Confession of Faith: True believers be not under the law as a covenant of works to be thereby justified or condemned yet it is of great use to them as well as to others as a rule of life.34
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
My new rule for life. Don't go into spooky dark woods on your own. You're not on your own.
~ Sophie Kinsella
What you cannot enforce, do not command!
~ Sophocles
CREON: Am I to rule for others, or myself? HAEMON: A State for one man is no State at all. CREON: The State is his who rules it, so 'tis held.
~ Sophocles
who in his right mind would rather rule and live in anxiety than sleep in peace?
~ Sophocles
Tis hard for power to observe each pious rule.
~ Sophocles
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion.
~ Debasish Mridha
It is always the exception that sets the rule.
~ Nadina Boun
I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.
~ Day Parker
And what of failure?"He shrugged."The consequence of not succeesing.Remember what Homer said.Circumstances rule men, not men circumstances.
~ Steve Berry