Bending The Rules

A little axe can cut down a big tree. - Jamaican Saying

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

When passion rules, she never rules wisely. - Ben Franklin

Appropriate rules cultivate a disciplined character. - Bill Welker

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

Preoccupied with a single leaf you won't see the tree. - Vagabond

He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children. - Rebecca Helm-Ropelato

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus

If you don't like where you are, move. You are not a tree. - Unknown

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. - Henry David Thoreau

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. - Madame Dudevant

If you tell a joe-k in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joe-k? - Steven Wright

Family Tree: The only tree whose branches seek the shelter of its roots - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Toss out the rules; don't think outside the box, throw the box away. - Nido Qubein

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. - J.J. Furnas

Learn not to talk to me. You shake the tree, a leopard's going to fall out. - Kobe Bryant

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Someone told me I was immature. Guess who's not allowed in my tree house now? - Unknown

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. - Florence King

If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over. - Richard Branson

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. - George R.R. Martin

I don't work out. If God wanted us to bend over, he'd put diamonds on the floor. - Joan Rivers

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughan

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

The game is played not to protect the rules; rather, the rules are made to protect the game. - Ravi Zacharias

Shady Character: A fellow who snoozes in a hammock under a tree while his wife mows the lawn - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. - David Hilbert

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. - Hal Borland

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. - George Bernard Shaw

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. - Mark Twain

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. - John Muir

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

He that climbs the tall tree has won the right to the fruit; he that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. - Walter Scott

He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life is like a man who plows in his field but does not sow. - Saadi

I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright. - Millard Kaufman

I think trees should bloom earlier in the spring. They act like they are on a schedule. It’s not like they have anywhere to go. - Jarod Kintz

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it was stupid. - Albert Einstein

The rules of clockwork might apply to familiar objects such as snooker balls, but when it comes to atoms, the rules are those of roulette. - Paul Davies