#rule

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#hurting #just #rules

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#back #climbed #comes #gradually #heights

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get. ↗

— Scott Alexander

#enterprise #free #free enterprise #get #give

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. ↗

— William Temple

#best #company #deserve #distrust #form

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#ear #feeling #instinct #life #like

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#basic #force #go #law #new

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#because #business #cannot #deposits #failed

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#good #good teacher #know #must #pupil

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#accomplish #hell #here #rules #something

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#dupe #each #general #general rule #love