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I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

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

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

When you talk about changing the rules, that takes time, and it always involves more than just a committee.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else.

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

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