“Obeying the rules might be smart, but it's not as nearly as much fun.”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Simply Irresistible
Variant: If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun
“Obeying the rules might be smart, but it's not as nearly as much fun.”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Simply Irresistible
Genevieve Cogman (1972) novelist and game designer
Source: The Burning Page (2016), Chapter 24 (p. 315)
Ginger Stanley (1931) American model, actress and stunt woman
Former model recalls days filming underwater http://www.ocala.com/news/20131106/former-model-recalls-days-filming-underwater (November 6, 2013)
“A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don’t matter a damn anymore.”
Raymond Carver book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)
“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Sorry, I can't hear you over all the fun you weren't having while I was at E3 having fun.”
Brian Clevinger (1978) writer
http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=060516
““Can you read?”
I nodded.
“Rules are posted over there. You got two choices. Obey them. Or be dead.””
Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 28, “To the Barrowland” (p. 576)
“When I obey a rule, I do not choose.
I obey the rule blindly.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations
§ 219
Philosophical Investigations (1953)