Rules quotations

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◆ Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

- G.K. Chesterton99

◆ It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

- Wallace Stegner99

◆ The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

- Eddie Van Halen99

◆ She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.

- Susan Donovan99

◆ Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-time is probably a bad sign, but here are some simple pieces of advice for the young. Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's a junk cure. Drink when you are in a good mood. Cheap booze is a false economy. It's not true that you shouldn't drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain. Hangovers are another bad sign, and you should not expect to be believed if you take refuge in saying you can't properly remember last night. (If you really don't remember, that's an even worse sign.) Avoid all narcotics: these make you more boring rather than less and are not designed—as are the grape and the grain—to enliven company. Be careful about up-grading too far to single malt Scotch: when you are voyaging in rough countries it won't be easily available. Never even think about driving a car if you have taken a drop. It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

- Criss Jami99

◆ It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainly out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.

- Wm. Paul Young99

◆ You are remembered for the rules you break.

- Douglas MacArthur99

◆ Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.

- Janet Fitch99

◆ To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

- Vera Nazarian99

◆ The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ 3) Saturday night is the official meeting night of Penny Lane's Lonely Hearts Club. Attendance is mandatory. Exceptions are for family emergencies and bad hair days only.

- Elizabeth Eulberg99

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

- Therese Anne Fowler99

◆ All relationships have one law: never make the one you love feel alone. Especially when youre there.

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◆ The number one rule of love; you can never be just friends with someone that you're in love with.

- Fad Ibra99