Rules
The rules of the game are referred to as the 'Laws' as promulgated by various bridge organizations.
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Famous quotes containing the word rules:
“Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraintsthe rules that run us. Language is using us to talkwe think were using the language, but language is doing the thinking, were its slavish agents.”
—Harry Mathews (b. 1930)
“The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.”
—James Thurber (18941961)
“... a large portion of success is derived from flexibility. It is all very well to have principles, rules of behavior concerning right and wrong. But it is quite as essential to know when to forget as when to use them.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (18671945)