Rules Of Marriage Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.

Sienna Miller

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

J.D. Robb

#5. 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

#6. That the quickest relief will come in forgetting.

Christina Baker Kline

#7. Writing is the handmaiden of leadership.

William Zinsser

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Jonathan Franzen

#11. The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

Khalil Gibran

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. people have managed to marry without arithmetic

Geoffrey Chaucer

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. ... if sin had a taste she'd found it.

Megan Mitcham

#20. A person who cares deeply about what people need in their lives is someone I'll never forget.

Kent McCord

#21. 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

#22. The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.

John C. Maxwell

#23. [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

#24. You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan.

Simon Cheshire

#25. 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

#26. The Lord does not want us to "miss supper." In fact, He has a great feast prepared for those who return clean and pure through the door.

M. Russell Ballard

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

Benjamin Disraeli

#28. I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.

Michael Masser

#29. The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later.

Jill McCorkle

#30. You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die.

Gurbaksh Chahal

#31. The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the otherslike a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.

Jorge Luis Borges