If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere. Marilyn Monroe
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. Marcus Tullius Cicero
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. Rene Descartes