“Teachin' fools some basic rules! (I pity the fool)”
Mr. T (1952) American actor and retired professional wrestler
Quotes from acting
“Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.”
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society
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Interview, 2 July, 1968; quoted in New York Times, 3 July, 1968, p. 6.
Michael A. Jackson (1936) British computer scientist
Principles of program design, 1975
“Any fool can make a rule
And every fool will mind it.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
February 3, 1860
Journals (1838-1859)
Source: http://thoreau.library.ucsb.edu/writings_journals_pdfs/J15f4-f6.pdf#page=289
Source: Journal #14
Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) American scientist and inventor
Comment after a 1977 Polaroid shareholder's meeting, as quoted in The Icarus Paradox : How Exceptional Companies Bring About Their Own Downfall; New Lessons in the Dynamics of Corporate Success, Decline, and Renewal (1990) by Danny Miller, p. 126
“That there is pain and evil, is no rule
That I should make it greater, like a fool.”
Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) English critic, essayist, poet and writer
A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret's "Choice", in The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt, London: Edward Moxon, 1846, p. 147 https://books.google.it/books?id=t7VYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA147.
John Prine (1946–2020) American country singer/songwriter
Caravan of Fools (co-written with Dan Auerbach and Pat McLaughlin)
Song lyrics, The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)
“Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.”
Douglas Bader (1910–1982) British World War II flying ace
Brickhill 1954, p. 44. Note: (also quoted as "...for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.") In Reach for the Sky, this quote is attributed to Harry Day, the Royal Flying Corps First World War fighter ace.
“For all a rhetorician's rules
Teach nothing but to name his tools.”
Canto I, line 81
Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Context: For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope;
And when he happen'd to break off
I' th' middle of his speech, or cough,
H' had hard words, ready to show why,
And tell what rules he did it by;
Else, when with greatest art he spoke,
You'd think he talk'd like other folk,
For all a rhetorician's rules
Teach nothing but to name his tools.