RULES QUOTES III

quotations about rules

Students who come eager to learn the rules and who do learn them, and who learn nothing more, will take away the shell and not the substance. We have discovered that rules alone, mere forms of words, are worthless.

KARL N. LLEWELLYN

The Bramble Bush: On Our Law and Its Study


There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

G. K. CHESTERTON

The Everlasting Man

Tags: G. K. Chesterton


An exception is nothing else than a rule that applies exceptionally.

FAUSTO CERCIGNANI

attributed, Simply Transcribed: Quotations from Fausto Cercignani


To say there is no rule without an exception is to utter an absurdity; a rule asserts a fact--an exception denies that fact. Twice the measure of a twelve inch rule makes twenty-four inches; if it were sometimes to make twenty-five it would not be a rule; a rule with an exception does not prove a rule--it contradicts it.

E. P. DAY

Day's Collacon


Do this, don't do that
Breaking rules is where it's at

POISON IDEA

"Made to be Broken"


The best rule is that which has fewest exceptions.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

Tags: Norman MacDonald


Necessity knows no rules.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

Miss Julie

Tags: August Strindberg


If rules make you nervous and depressed, and not desirous of participating in the Wiki, then ignore them and go about your business.

LEE DANIEL CROCKER

"Ignore all rules policy", Wikipedia, April 17, 2002


She wasn't a fool
That glittering girl
She followed the rules
That shimmering pearl
Said the rules mama preaches
Go down when they break
The things mama teaches
You just gotta shake

THE WHO

"Glittering Girl"


How dreadful ... to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.

CAROLINE STEVERMER

Sorcery & Cecilia: or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot


Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.

THERESE ANNE FOWLER

Souvenir: A Novel


We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.

BRYANT MCGILL

"True revolution advances consciousness"


Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.

WM. PAUL YOUNG

The Shack

Tags: Wm. Paul Young


If a rule was not able to 'stand-alone' and be used without the need for related provisions that were not operative due to submissions in opposition, the rule was also considered to be not operative as a consequence.

ANNA JOHNSON

"Next step in 2GP process", Scoop, February 5, 2016


Rules are funny things. They are supposed to keep you safe and promote your goodness. At times they do. And at other times, they destroy your happiness and entrap you. We all have to find our way within the rules and we all have to find our time to break the rules.

NANCY ROCKWELL

"Prodigals: Are We The Older Brothers or The Party Friends?", Patheos, February 28, 2016


Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities ... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by.

OLIVER CROMWELL

speech to Parliament, September 12, 1654

Tags: Oliver Cromwell


Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

JOE ABERCROMBIE

Last Argument of Kings


History admits no rules, only outcomes.

DAVID MITCHELL

Cloud Atlas


Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.

JOEL COEN & ETHAN COEN

The Big Lebowski


The rules are only barriers to keep children from falling.

ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE DE STAËL

De l'Allemagne