Rules

(123 votes)   Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(120 votes)   Don't learn safety rules simply by accident

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(114 votes)   Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something.

Thomas A. Edison
1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE

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(105 votes)   It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(100 votes)   There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(90 votes)   Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

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(89 votes)   Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(88 votes)   Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(86 votes)   When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

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(83 votes)   When everything else fails read the instructions.

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(79 votes)   Let your rule in reference to your social desires be this. Pray for the bad, pity the weak, enjoy the good, and reverence both the great and the small, as each playing their part in the divine symphony of the universe.

Professor Blackie

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(79 votes)   Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(75 votes)   Nordstrom's Rules for Employees: Rule # 1: Use your good judgment in all situations There are no additional rules

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(72 votes)   Whoever has the gold makes all the rules.

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(71 votes)   There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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