Mr. Klamp laid down the law. No tardiness, no talking above 40 decibels, no untied shoelaces, no visible undergarments, no eating, no chewing gum, no chewing tobacco, no chewing betel nuts, no chewing coca leaves, no chewing out students (unless Mr. Klamp was doing the chewing out), no chewing out teachers (unless ditto), no unnecessary displays of temper (unless ditto), no unnecessary displays of affection (no exceptions), no pets over one ounce or under one ton, and no singing, except in Bulgarian. I began to think Mr Klamp wouldn't be so bad...
Polly ShulmanTag: humor education school teachers rules students
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."
(Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.)
Tag: inspirational art natural last-words fulfillment rules writer
A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief -- as well as injustice -- to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.
Derrick A. BellTag: innocence injustice justice rules grief function exceptions
Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace.
T.F. HodgeTag: life friend compassion actions rules hard-knocks influence enemy quotes extreme inner-self
I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No one asks why the knight is allowed his eccentric hop, why the castle may only go straight and the bishop obliquely. These things are to be accepted, and with these rule the game must be played: it is foolish to complain of them.
W. Somerset MaughamTag: rules
I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.
Criss JamiTag: conformity creativity artists rules irony leader example following
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
Margaret FullerTag: nature rules exceptions
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTag: love relationships desires rules restraint
One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.
Melina MarchettaTag: rules sentimentality
(Love is the puzzle that) can’t be solved. Catlike, it follows no rules but its own, and only it knows what they are. Also it can change the rules any time it wants, in any way it wants, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Chris DeeTag: cats love rules rules-of-life puzzle love-is
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