Gold rules the world. [ Dutch Proverb ]
Love rules without law. [ Italian Proverb ]
Imagination rules the world. [ Napoleon ]
Vice rules where gold reigns. [ Proverb ]
According to the rules of art.
There are no rules for felicity. [ Victor Hugo ]
Peace flourishes where reason rules. [ L. Barrey ]
Love rules his kingdom without a sword. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Love rules the camp, the court, the grove,
And men below and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love. [ Scott ]
Rule, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves;
Britons never shall be slaves. [ Thomson ]
Of all the causes that conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind.
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. [ Pope ]
The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules. [ H. Brooke ]
Despotic conscience rules our hopes and fears. [ Ovid ]
He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. [ Collins ]
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. [ Cicero ]
Love rules without a sword and binds without a cord. [ Proverb ]
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. [ Emerson, from Wordsworth ]
Ill patterns are sure to be followed more than good rules. [ Locke ]
Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency. [ Bruyere ]
The genius, our companion, who rules our natal star, knows. [ Horace ]
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. [ Mme. Dudevant ]
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn all earthly things but virtue. [ Shelley ]
Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective. [ Rev. Dr. Sharp ]
The divinity who rules within us forbids us to leave this world without his command. [ Cicero ]
Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct. [ Brande ]
The two best rules for a system of rhetoric are: first, have something to say; and next, say it. [ George Emmons ]
There cannot be a body of rules without a rationale, and this rationale constitutes the science. [ Sir G. C. Lewis ]
The true characteristic of genius - without despising rules, it knows when and how to break them. [ Channing ]
There are no rules for friendship; it must be left to itself; we cannot force it any more than love. [ Hazlitt ]
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice. [ Sallust ]
War suspends the rules of moral obligation, and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated. [ Burke ]
Fancy rules over two-thirds of the universe, the past and the future, while reality is confined to the present. [ Jean Paul ]
There is no friendship between those associated in power; he who rules will always be impatient of an associate. [ Lucan ]
Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival. [ Montaigne ]
All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art - by adjusting efforts to obstacles. [ Napoleon I ]
Voltaire inscribed on a statue of Love: Whoever thou art, behold thy master! He rules thee, or has ruled thee, or will rule thee!
He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow. [ Saadi ]
Only if the spirit of man were not free, would the thought be a great one that there is a monarch of thought who rules over our souls. [ Platen ]
I take the official oath today with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution by any hypercritical rules. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Rules may teach us not to raise the arms above the head; but if passion carries them, it will be well done; passion knows more than art. [ Baron ]
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. Thou shalt not
is their characteristic formula. [ Coleridge ]
A friendship formed in childhood, in youth, - by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood becomes the genius that rules the rest of life. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
How sweet it would be to live in society if the countenance always reflected the disposition, if decency were virtue, and if our maxims were our rules of action. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are out of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire. [ Sir J. Reynolds ]
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed. [ Lavater ]
The passions are the only orators that always persuade; they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing. [ Addison ]
He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind. [ Johnson ]
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. [ Goethe ]
Genius is that power of man which by its deeds and actions gives laws and rules; and it does not, as used to be thought, manifest itself only by over-stepping existing laws, breaking established rules, and declaring itself above all restraint. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. Let us begin where she begins, go her pace, and close always where she ends, and we cannot miss of being good naturalists. [ William Penn ]
Without attempting a formal definition of the word, I am inclined to consider rhetoric, when reduced to a system in books, as a body of rules derived from experience and observation, extending to all communications by language, and designed to make it efficient. [ W. E. Channing ]
He that can keep handsomely within rules, and support the carriage of a companion to his mistress, is much more likely to prevail than he who lets her see the whole relish of his life depends upon her. If possible, therefore, divert your mistress rather than sigh for her. [ Steele ]
We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind. [ Johnson ]
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height. [ Bruyere ]
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art: but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning. [ Montaigne ]
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take commonsense quantum sufficit (in sufficient quantity); add a little application to the rules and orders of the House of Commons, throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface. [ Chesterfield ]
As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions. Some are disposed to view logic as a peculiar method of reasoning, and not as it is, a method of unfolding and analysing our reason. They have, in short, considered logic as an art of reasoning. The logician's object being, not to lay down principles by which one may reason, but by which all must reason, even though they are not distinctly aware of them - to lay down rules not which may be followed with advantage, but which cannot possibly be deviated from in sound reasoning. [ R. Whately ]