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
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
An exception is nothing else than a rule that applies exceptionally.
FAUSTO CERCIGNANI
attributed, Simply Transcribed: Quotations from Fausto Cercignani
Do this, don't do that
Breaking rules is where it's at
POISON IDEA
"Made to be Broken"
Necessity knows no rules.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
Miss Julie
The best rule is that which has fewest exceptions.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
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"
Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.
THERESE ANNE FOWLER
Souvenir: A Novel
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
We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.
BRYANT MCGILL
"True revolution advances consciousness"
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
Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Last Argument of Kings
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
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 cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.
WM. PAUL YOUNG
The Shack
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
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The Power of Myth