Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.
Jeffery Deaver
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Charles Dickens
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
Diogenes
There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
Beth Ditto
I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.
Bill Dixon
My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.
Don Drysdale
Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.
Arne Duncan
Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.
Frans de Waal
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.
Jenny Eclair