
"The Beauty of Life," a lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design (19 February 1880), later published in Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878 - 1881 (1882).
"The Beauty of Life," a lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design (19 February 1880), later published in Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878 - 1881 (1882).
“You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules.”
Source: Magic in the Wind
“Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself”
Source: Once Dead, Twice Shy
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Popular version of the first sentence: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it."
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Source: Minority Report
“It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.”
Source: Finnikin of the Rock
“I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.”
“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”
“Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.”
Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (1934): "Warning"
Misattributed
“One basketball to rule them all,” Leo muttered.”
Variant: One basketball to rule them all.
Source: The Mark of Athena
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
“Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden…”
Source: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Source: 1970s, Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972), Matters of Fact and Fiction : Essays 1973 - 1976 (1978), p. 280
“The first rule of truly living - do the thing you are most afraid of.”
“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.”
Source: The Elements of Typographic Style
“If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly”
Rolling Stone interview (21 June 1984)
“There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once.”
Source: Grave Peril
Source: Thief's Covenant
“There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.”
“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
As quoted in the epigraph in Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury; Susie Salmon also uses this quote in The Lovely Bones, and Daniel Quinn published a book in 2007 with the title If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways (2007)
Spanish: "Si os dan papel pautado, escribid por el otro lado" (If they give you lined paper, write on the other side)
"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way" is often attributed to William Carlos Williams who was contemporary with JRJ.
Misattributed
“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
“Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.”
Episode 2, Chapter 22
Source: The Power of Myth (1988)
“When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.”
This maxim (perhaps of gambling or horse racing origin) is widely attributed to Warren Buffett and, as such, has traditionally been cited in print; notably, it was attributed (perhaps facetiously) to him by Mary Buffett in, The Tao of Warren Buffett. A more uncommon, less well known version, and perhaps one with a more lasting credibility (or certainly with a higher degree of checkability), would be: "The first rule is don't lose, and the second rule is never forget the first rule." This version was noted by Steve Forbes in a friendly meeting in Omaha, in an article published as: Jay-Z, Buffett and Forbes on Success and Giving Back. This article is available on the Forbes website, published on September 23, 2010.
Disputed
Variant: Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.
In the House of Commons (18 April 1947), cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (1996), Jay, Oxford University Press, p. 93.
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“In case you were wondering, it is preferable to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven—I’ve done both.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Did Belikov bend the rules of time and space to get here so fast? He can do that, right?”
Source: The Fiery Heart
Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Remarkable Story About Living Your Dreams
Source: Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
1990s
Source: [Can Man Live Without God, 1994, 9780849939433, 12]
“He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.”
"The Will to Believe" p. 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=Moqh7ktHaJEC&pg=PA10
1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
Introduction, Collected Works of Ken Wilber, vol. VIII (2000) http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/books/cowokev8_intro.cfm/
Context: The real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is: here are some of the many important facets of this extraordinary Kosmos; have you thought about including them in your own worldview? My work is an attempt to make room in the Kosmos for all of the dimensions, levels, domains, waves, memes, modes, individuals, cultures, and so on ad infinitum. I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace. To Freudians I say, Have you looked at Buddhism? To Buddhists I say, Have you studied Freud? To liberals I say, Have you thought about how important some conservative ideas are? To conservatives I say, Can you perhaps include a more liberal perspective? And so on, and so on, and so on... At no point I have ever said: Freud is wrong, Buddha is wrong, liberals are wrong, conservatives are wrong. I have only suggested that they are true but partial. My critical writings have never attacked the central beliefs of any discipline, only the claims that the particular discipline has the only truth — and on those grounds I have often been harsh. But every approach, I honestly believe, is essentially true but partial, true but partial, true but partial.
And on my own tombstone, I dearly hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial...
Progress of Culture Phi Beta Kappa Address (July 18, 1867)
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.”
Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.
Richelieu (1839)
“Whoa, boy, he told himself. Golden Rule for Demigods: Thou shalt not Hokey Pokey with psychos.”
Source: The Demigod Diaries
“I followed my heart without breaking any rules.”
… The twenty-five percent is for error.
Pauling's reply to an audience question about his ethical system, following his lecture circa 1961 at Monterey Peninsula College, in Monterey, California.
1990s
“The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.”
Source: The Elementary Particles
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!"
"Who cares?”
Source: Lord of the Flies (1954), Ch. 5: Beast from Water
Context: "The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!"
"Who cares?"
Ralph summoned his wits.
"Because the rules are the only thing we've got!"
But Jack was shouting against him.
"Bollocks to the rules! We're strong — we hunt! If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down! We'll close in and beat and beat and beat —!"
Source: King Rat