there are NO rules, merely suggestions

“It’s your house; the doors are merely suggestions.”

— Marshall Gregson Character

I don't break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

— Bill Veeck

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

— Bill Veeck

And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together…

— Tim LaHaye

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

— Knute Rockne

Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on…

— Nancy Pearcey

If you are in love with someone, a kiss is merely a way of expressing it.

— Regina Cassandra

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on…

— Anonymous

The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination.

— Margaret MacMillan

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or…

— John Ridley

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

— Hermann Goering

Love is merely a madness.

— William Shakespeare

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra.

— Lorenz Oken

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis