Rule - Quotes
The most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.
I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn`t allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.
Make it a point to do something every day that you don`t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
If you love someone, you shouldn`t make them miserable. It`s a rule somewhere, or should be.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Inflexible rule of life - when you really need to get drunk, you can never afford to do it.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
A classic rule of writing and editing: when writing, don` t hesitate to include something; when editing, don` t hesitate to throw it out.
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there`s a 90% probability you`ll get it wrong.
It is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
I have found that it is usually in unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?