Marriage Rules Quotes

#1. Roarke had to deal with her moods. It was in the marriage rules.

J.D. Robb

#2. Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and women and unaffectedly play by the rules.

Julieanne O'Connor

#3. They weren't bad guys, just products of a society run by men and infused with rules to leave everyone sexually frustrated. Even in marriage sex in India is often just a brief, clumsy fumble in the dark, trying not to wake up grandma who's sleeping in the same bed.

Tom Thumb

#4. No matter how many rules we make for ourselves, rules don't create godly relationships. Only leaning on our faithful Father and longing to please Him with everything we do will set the stage for a beautiful romance!

Eric Ludy

#5. Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

Jonathan Franzen

#7. Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority.

R.C. Sproul

#8. The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#9. Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For
once, I couldn't take advice from anyone around me about what I should or
shouldn't do. I couldn't go running to mum and dad and I can't compare my
marriage to anybody else's, we all follow our own rules.

Cecelia Ahern

#10. people have managed to marry without arithmetic

Geoffrey Chaucer

#11. Rules are made to be broken, but hearts are broken to be made.
It is a big miracle to be loved "because" of your inadequacies, not "despite" them.
And nothing can be as fascinating as walking tall on the same road that once witnessed your fall.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#12. Doing difficult things like passing marriage equality, passing the Dream Act, doing common sense things that allow new American immigrants to fully participate, pay their taxes, play by the rules and take care of their families. That's the inclusive America that I believe all of us want to move to.

Martin O'Malley

#13. There are just so many more laws and rules that apply with marriage that do not come with domestic partnership and also to me it's the commitment.

Wanda Sykes

#14. [Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

Wallace Stegner

#15. The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.

Donna Ball

#16. We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she's getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it's working.

Justin Timberlake

#17. Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

Benjamin Disraeli

#18. Not only should the conventional "rules" of marriage not apply necessarily to individual wives, but the euphoria of Phase One is old news. We being to learn that while nothing is as good as it seems, nothing is quite as dire as it appears.

Susan Shapiro Barash