RULE

Related Subjects: Dictatorship, Government, Grammar, Habit, Kings, Tyranny

1. Better no rule than cruel rule.—AESOP, The Frogs Desiring a King
   

2. No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.—ROBERT BURTON,
   Anatomy of Melancholy
   

3. For all a rhetorician's rules
   Teach nothing but to name his tools.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
   

4. Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state.—DRYDEN, Absalom & Achitophel
   

5. He who rules must humor full as much as he commands.—GEORGE ELIOT
   

6. No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.—THOMAS A KEMPIS,
   Of the Imitation of Christ
   

7. No ruler good save God.—Proverb
   

8. He that hath a fellow-ruler, hath an over-ruler.—Proverb
   

9. Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.—EDMUND SPENSER,
   The Faerie Queene