Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.

I'm so afraid of starting something new outside of Chad, the norm, everything, but I can't be stagnant, Tyson. I feel like I have no idea where I'm going in life anymore. The page is unwritten, and that scares me, but I'm going to be strong and face it head-on with a pen, not a pencil. Mistakes are bound to happen, but that's life-you grow and you learn from it. Hurt, that's inevitable, and so is growth. You have to let yourself grow and be happy-you can't wallow in this state that you're in.

I'm learning more that some of life lessons are well hidden, but I'm reporting today to SEEK the value of the unwritten.

I don't have a diary, I don't write things into a diary. I imprint myself into the sky and when the sunlight shines brightly, I can stand under the sun's rays and everything I have imprinted of myself into the sky, I will begin to see again, feel again, remember. And when the wind begins to blow, it blows the details over my face, and I remember everything I left in the sky and see new things being born. I am unwritten.

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

I've become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I'm able to, then perhaps I'll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.

You do not know our culture our ethics or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech and which by imposing the most terrible punishments treats each and every attempt at criticism however morally justified and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

There is a misleading unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous very old or Greek then it must be good advice.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.