“From a few basic rules you can generate a cosmos.”
Howard Bloom (1943) American publicist and author
Brace Yourself: The Five Heresies
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)
“After having won a scepter, few are so generous
As to disdain the pleasures of ruling.”
Peu de généreux vont jusqu'à dédaigner,
Après un sceptre acquis, la douceur de régner.
Maxime, act II, scene i.
Cinna (1641)
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Christian Dior (1905–1957) French fashion designer
Variant: Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely. <br class="br">Source: Jill Kargman Arm Candy: A Novel http://books.google.co.in/books?id=EVg6b7fFXUEC&pg=PT99, Penguin, 13 May 2010, p. 99
“Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Context: Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words. We shall, however, when occasion demands, enter into discourse sparingly, avoiding such common topics as gladiators, horse-races, athletes; and the perpetual talk about food and drink. Above all avoid speaking of persons, either in the way of praise or blame, or comparison. If you can, win over the conversation of your company to what it should be by your own. But if you should find yourself cut off without escape among strangers and aliens, be silent. (164).
“The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
Source: The Story of My Life
Park Benjamin, Sr. (1809–1864) American journalist
The Old Sexton, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.”
Solón (-638–-558 BC) Athenian legislator
Diogenes Laërtius (trans. C. D. Yonge) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853), "Solon", sect. 12, p. 29.
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 2, subsection 3, Custom of Diet, Delight, Appetite, Necessity, how they cause or hinder.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
As quoted in Communications and History : Theories of Knowledge, Media and Civilization (1988) by Paul Heyer, p. 125