"Rule of thumb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a horse trainer who did a little farming, or a farmer who did a little horse training, and his management of young horses followed no known rules, and indeed knew none, but it was generally successful. He fed them by rule of thumb; he herded them in hustling, squabbling parties in pitch-dark sheds; he ploughed them at eighteen months; he beat them with a stick like dogs when they transgressed, and like dogs they loved him. He had what gardeners call "a lucky hand" with them, and they ...
— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross
... in life that can be properly treated by rule of thumb. Good judgment is called for at every turn; and the habit of considering relative values in regard to all affairs is one that the student should constantly cultivate, no matter what dangers ...
— How To Study and Teaching How To Study • F. M. McMurry
... awf'ly nice, dear, but it would be giving you trouble for nothing. I can't work that way. I go by rule of thumb. I know the present scale of weights, and the other one—the one that I'm trying to work to—will shift and vary so much that I couldn't be certain, even if I ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... of consent is not a new art. It is a very old one which was supposed to have died out with the appearance of democracy. But it has not died out. It has, in fact, improved enormously in technic, because it is now based on analysis rather than on rule of thumb. And so, as a result of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than ...
— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann
... Rule of Three, But he knows a rule of thumb Better than Euclid's, better than yours, Or the ...
— Songs from Vagabondia • Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey |
