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I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny. — Nigel Cole

So, to prevent fatigue and worry, the first rule is: Rest often. Rest before you get tired. — Dale Carnegie

The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club. — Seanan McGuire

On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor. — Pawan Mishra

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

First rule of bodyguard detail: know where your 'body' is at all times. — Ilona Andrews

Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly. — Georges St-Pierre

This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there. — Garth Stein

The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club. — Douglas Lewis

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. — Kingsley Amis

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life. — Carolyn Heilbrun

First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power. — Neil Gaiman

The first rule in questioning any witness is: Never ask a question if you are not sure what the answer will be. - Brice Mack — Frank De Felitta

The first rule for speaking well is to think well. — Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

Rule Six: The winning team shall be the first team that wins. — Douglas Adams

No bikinis on a first date." He nods. "I'm sure that's a rule. Or should be. For my sisters anyway. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

First rule of restorations. Never do what you can't undo. — Donna Tartt

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'. — Ryan Stiles

The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an asshole. That's the first rule of retail. — Kelly Link

Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid — Terry Goodkind

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. — Paul R. Ehrlich

First rule of life: the woman always goes first. Through doors, into orgasm, and in this case, crumbling to the pressure in a battle of wills. "Fuck — Max Monroe

Never read the comments, Covey! That's the first rule of-"
"If you say 'Fight Club' to me right now, I will hang up on you. — Jenny Han

First rule of complex systems," I said. "You can't tell friends from enemies. — Alastair Reynolds

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry. — Bill Bryson

To be a successful father ... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. — Ernest Hemingway,

I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook. — Colleen Hoover

First rule of a pirate's mate, keep yer eye on yer destination, not yer doom. — Lisa Kessler

Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be. — Sophie Kinsella

Her ancestors would fight for her spirit, but so too would the white devils who had come to rule. They had taken first our land and then our souls. — Selina Siak Chin Yoke

First rule, stick them with the pointy end! — George R R Martin

You mean that it's not only what he does that makes him dangerous, but also what he feels justified in doing? — Terry Goodkind

First rule of a good shrink is probably to pay attention to the whining. — Gayle Friesen

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't. — Anthea Turner

To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths. — Laozi

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself. — Nellie Melba

Even though the odds are in my favor, doesn't mean they'll end up that way. First rule of cards. And of life. — Jessica Sorensen

Our first rule here ... is that one must always see for oneself. — Ayn Rand

No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself. — Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

My rule is always, People first and things second. — Leo Buscaglia

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time. — Douglas Horton

The first rule of good theatre is 'Show, don't tell.' It applies to good political action as well. — Carne Ross

The first rule of marital success: Don't marry crazy and don't be crazy. — Deb Caletti

Ah, the first rule of public speaking
always start with a joke. — Jon Stewart

Rule 1: The actions of confidence come first; the feelings of confidence come later. — Russ Harris

The first rule of cannibal mermaid fight club is don't talk about cannibal mermaid fight club. — Kali Wallace

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction — Karl Marx

The First Rule of Parenting states that you never wake a peacefully sleeping child. — David Mitchell

The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. This — Brian Tracy

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning. — D.H. Lawrence

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art. — Joseph Addison

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging. — Molly Ivins

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up. — William Goldman

First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room. — Jesse Eisenberg

It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself. — Winthrop W. Aldrich

The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels. — Thomas Friedman

It was his first sharp experience with the rule that without money you cannot fight money. — John Steinbeck

First Rule of the coven is-"
"We don't talk about the coven?" I joked, but my Fight Club reference was not well received. — C.E. Dimond

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success. — William Feather

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it. — Libba Bray

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else. — Zadie Smith

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives. — Jean-Marie Lehn

The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything. — Terry Goodkind

But the first rule of restorations, as he'd taught me earlier on, was that you never did what you couldn't reverse. — Donna Tartt

Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."
The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels? — Sarah MacLean

Light is safety; light is life
The first rule of the Arclight. — Josin L. McQuein

The first rule of my speaking is: listen! — Larry King

Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game. — Ovid

The first rule of Bi Club is that you can talk about Bi Club all you want, because most people won't believe it's real anyway. — Lindsay King-Miller

The first rule of Evernight is that any vampire who seeks sanctuary must be given a place.
-Charity
— Claudia Gray

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature. — Deepak Chopra

Thats the first rule of being a kid — Dan Gutman

The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things. — Emile Durkheim

The first rule of functions is that they should be small. The second rule of functions is that they should be smaller than that. — Robert C. Martin

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable. — Gregory Benford

This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first. — Elizabeth Berg

The first rule of film club is you don't talk about Rosebud. — Chuck Palahniuk

The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone. — Andrew O'Hagan

My rule is to save myself first. — Kevin Hart

That a teacher of the gospel should first be a partaker of it is a simple truth, but at the same time a rule of the most weighty importance. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty. — Vinod Khosla

CHAPTER THE FIRST
(AND LAST)
The Golden Rule of Dragon Training is to ...
YELL AT IT!
(The louder the better,)
THE END. — Cressida Cowell

First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers — Simon R. Green

Rule by cats, that's what we really need. My first decree would be for more naps." "And — Jordan L. Hawk

The first rule to having something is taking care of what you have. — Dortha Jackson

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. — Thomas Sowell

First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible. — Sameh Talhamy

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law. — Leon Jaworski

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress. — Mark Zuckerberg

The first rule in the book of love is acceptance. — Destinee Hardwick

Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded. — Bernie Mac

The first rule of self control is never to put yourself in a position where you have to practice self control — Venancio Cadle Gomani Jr.

The first rule in making money is not to lose it. — Steven J. Lee

This is the first rule of the last war:Trust No One — Rick Yancey

There's only one absolute rule in writing: None of us gets it right the first time. Revise, reverse, reinvent, re-vision. — Jane Yolen

No eating people. The first rule a shifter learned, right after don't lick the electrical outlet. — Eve Langlais

The first rule of all filmmaking is that every scene should start at the last possible moment and end at the first possible moment. — Austin Film Festival

I think it's a rule that it's socially acceptable to wet yourself when aliens enter your mind for the first time. If it wasn't already, it is now. — Orson Scott Card

The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies. — Elizabeth J. Kolodziej