92 Rules And Quotes

Are you seeking inspiration, guidance, or a fresh perspective on life's myriad challenges? Look no further. We've meticulously curated a collection of the top 92 rules and quotes, offering wisdom and insight from some of the world's greatest minds. Whether you're navigating personal growth, professional hurdles, or simply searching for daily motivation, these nuggets of wisdom are poised to illuminate your path. Dive in and let the profound reflections and practical advice empower and uplift you every day.

1. “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

2. “Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.” - Henry David Thoreau

3. “Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.” - Dalai Lama XIV

4. “Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.” - Neil Gaiman

5. “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 Stegner

6. “I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world.--Terri Mitchell” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

7. “...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. “We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.” - Alan Bennett

9. “The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.” - Banksy

10. “The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.” - George Bernard Shaw

11. “To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!” - Vera Nazarian

12. “Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.” - Jack Foster

13. “Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding.” - Steve Maraboli

14. “I am not really breaking any rules. Charlie said I could never take another step through the door again... I came in through the window... Still, the intent was clear," said Edward.” - Stephenie Meyer

15. “Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.” - Joe Abercrombie

16. “One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.” - John Green

17. “The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.” - Benjamin Franklin

18. “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 Donovan

19. “There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.” - Charles Spurgeon

20. “Fear has the role we give it. We are able to empower or poison ourselves to whatever degree we want. This is the beauty of our design.” - Steve Maraboli

21. “The process of discovering your fearless self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern your freedom.” - Steve Maraboli

22. “More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.” - Hyman G. Rickover

23. “There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.” - Elizabeth Scott

24. “Rules help us live our liveswhen we lose the will to do it on our own” - Yvonne Woon

25. “He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable” - Jodi Picoult

26. “The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.” - Eddie Van Halen

27. “Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.” - Therese Fowler

28. “When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.” - Emile Durkheim

29. “Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.” - Charlotte Brontë

30. “There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.” - Julia Quinn

31. “2) Members will attend events together as a group, including, but not limited to, Homecoming, Prom, parties, and other couply events, despite possibly being labeled as freaks and getting jealous looks from guys who wish we were their hot dates, but instead have to settle for some lame wannabe.” - Elizabeth Eulberg

32. “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 Eulberg

33. “I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance you used in the morning, what door you used going home, when you could talk in the library, how many paper towels you could use in the rest room, and how many drinks of water you could get during recess. And there was always somebody watching to make sure.What I'm finding out about growing older is that there are just as many rules about lots of things, but there's nobody watching.” - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

34. “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 Fitch

35. “You are remembered for the rules you break.” - Douglas MacArthur

36. “How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.” - Caroline Stevermer

37. “Don't play any game if you don't understand the rules no matter how nice winners trophy looks like” - Sonja Smolec

38. “Never argue with a mother who's scolding her child.” - Toba Beta

39. “We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.” - Catherynne M. Valente

40. “I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.” - Lori R. Lopez

41. “Mr. Klamp laid down the law. No tardiness, no talking above 40 decibels, no untied shoelaces, no visible undergarments, no eating, no chewing gum, no chewing tobacco, no chewing betel nuts, no chewing coca leaves, no chewing out students (unless Mr. Klamp was doing the chewing out), no chewing out teachers (unless ditto), no unnecessary displays of temper (unless ditto), no unnecessary displays of affection (no exceptions), no pets over one ounce or under one ton, and no singing, except in Bulgarian. I began to think Mr Klamp wouldn't be so bad...” - Polly Shulman

42. “Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."(Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.)” - Charles Dickens

43. “A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief -- as well as injustice -- to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.” - Derrick Bell

44. “I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No one asks why the knight is allowed his eccentric hop, why the castle may only go straight and the bishop obliquely. These things are to be accepted, and with these rule the game must be played: it is foolish to complain of them.” - W. Somerset Maugham

45. “You meet me after school right here", I said."Why?" he asked.I couldn't believe he was so stupid."Because we're going to finish this fight.""You're crazy," Roger said.He got to his feet and walked away. His gang stared at me like I was a serail killer, and they followed their leader.I was absolutely confused.I had followed the rules of fighting. i had behaved exactly the way I was supposed to behave. But these white boys had ignored the rules. In fact, they followed a whole other set of mysterious rules where people apparently DID NOT GET INTO FISTFIGHTS.(65)” - Sherman Alexie

46. “I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.” - Criss Jami

47. “Unfortunately, in many cases, the rule book goes way too far - it tries to tell people how to be instead of explaining what we're trying to do.. We need recipes, not rules.” - Howard Behar

48. “Nature provides exceptions to every rule.” - Margaret Fuller

49. “One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.” - Melina Marchetta

50. “(Love is the puzzle that) can’t be solved. Catlike, it follows no rules but its own, and only it knows what they are. Also it can change the rules any time it wants, in any way it wants, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.” - Chris Dee

51. “The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.” - Christopher Hitchens

52. “You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

53. “But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of our silly rules; nothing.” - Lionel Shriver

54. “The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.” - Janette Rallison

55. “The day you give priority to bogus ethics over human reactions, you become a loser. Human reactions are priceless. Rules should never, ever stifle emotions. Tennis is a very human game facing a great danger that it will be strangulated in a cat's cradle of unnecessary or inhumane rules.” - Ted Tinling

56. “The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can make rules.” - Daniel Nayeri

57. “Lerne die Regeln, damit du weißt, wie du sie brichst.” - Dalai Lama XIV

58. “Right now I've got just two rules to live by.Rule one: don't taunt elephants.Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants.-Sergeant Schlock” - Howard Tayler

59. “There are two rules for sucess:1. Never tell everything you know.” - Roger H. Lincoln

60. “In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.” - Tahir Shah

61. “Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.” - Benjamin Franklin

62. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” - Pablo Picasso

63. “Always ask any questions that are to be asked and never answer any. Turn everything you hear to your own advantage. Always carry a repair outfit. Take left turns as much as possible. Never apply your front brake first.‘If you follow them’, said the Sergeant, ‘you will save your soul and never get a fall on a slippery road.” - Flann O'Brien

64. “He tousled Baby's hair, then looked up at Tiger Lily. "The woods have rules." He put Baby down gingerly in his trough with his bottle. "But the rules are ugly.""It's nature," she said, thoughtfully."I have a lot of disagreements with nature," he said, looking confused, and his downy brow wrinkled over his eyes.” - Jodi Lynn Anderson

65. “Rules kill art.” - H.G. Mewis

66. “The rules are simple!” - Kazuki Takahashi

67. “When you break rules, break 'em good and hard” - Terry Pratchett

68. “People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.” - Richard Rohr

69. “LIfe is just a game of chance, a dance with fate if you let it be so. Or you could chose to play by your rules to win.” - Steven Redhead

70. “With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.” - Lauren Oliver

71. “I didn't write the rules, why should i follow them?” - W. Eugene Smth

72. “RULES OF FAIRYLAND-BELOWBEWARE OF DOGANYTHING IMPORTANT COMES IN THREES AND SIXESDO NOT STEAL QUEENSA GIRL IN THE WILD IS WORTH TWO IN CHAINSNECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF TEMPTATIONEVERYTHING MUST BE PAID FOR SOONER OR LATERWHAT GOES DOWN MUST COME UP” - Catherynne M. Valente

73. “Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women."[Commencement Address, Wellesley College, 1996]” - Nora Ephron

74. “Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.” - Eliezer Yudkowsky

75. “I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.” - Glenda Millard

76. “I play by the rules even when there aren’t any.” - Stacy Kramer

77. “You make your own rules and then break one, that's really horrible.” - Moath Almasri

78. “Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.” - James Carlos Blake

79. “Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

80. “Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.” - Steven Moffat

81. “That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.” - Lauren Oliver

82. “I'm not sure what a good person is, exactly. On the one hand, it could be someone who always play by the rules. But someone can follow the rules and still be a real jerk, you know? In fact, some of the biggest idiots I know are people who follow the rules, usually because they make you feel like crap when you don't.” - Michael Thomas Ford

83. “I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.” - Dan Wells

84. “Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!” - Denise Moreland

85. “Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.” - Philip K. Howard

86. “It is important for all of us to understand that free people are not governed by rules. Here at Hillsdale we are governed by goals, and then the rules are very broad.” - Larry P. Arnn

87. “Ladies and gentleman," he said over the speakers, "welcome aboard this recently liberated Gulfstream V. If I could have your attention for just a few moments, I'd like to go over the safety features of this aircraft. It has an engine, to make us go, and wings, to keep us in the air. There are seatbelts, which won't do you an awful lot of good if we fly into the side of a mountain.” - Derek Landy

88. “Despite the best of intentions, people create rules variously and often in reaction to behaviors deemed unacceptable to the larger goals of the group. That is why we often find ourselves revising the rules when new conditions reveal their loopholes.” - Dov Seidman

89. “Human beings are natural problem solvers and enjoy the challenge of puzzles. We will always invent new loopholes, and no rule can govern all the cracks.” - Dov Seidman

90. “We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.” - Bryant McGill

91. “What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.” - Patti Digh

92. “His rules were thus: One, resist when beneficial to the cause. Two, dignity before humiliation. Three, don’t show true emotions.” - Courtney Kirchoff