quotations about custom
We have brought in the yoke of custom to improve the world, and in the world the custom sticks.
WALTER BAGEHOT
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Physics and Politics
'Tis nothing when you are used to it.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Polite Conversation
Custom is another law.
LATIN PROVERB
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Individuality
How many unjust and wicked things are sanctioned by custom.
TERENCE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Just because you have become accustomed to a thing, does not make it right.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Atreides
So they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves according to their custom with swords and lances until the blood gushed out on them.
BIBLE
1 Kings 18:28
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
BOVEE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
SINCLAIR LEWIS
Main Street
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
JOSEPH W. KRUTCH
The Modern Temper
But to my mind, though I am native here,
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
What humanity abhors, custome reconciles and recommends to us.
JOHN LOCKE
On Education
Custom alone regulates morals.
ANATOLE FRANCE
The Revolt of the Angels
Custom is a violent and deceiving school-mistress.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Essays
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
So many countries, so many customs.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
The slaves of custom and established mode,
With pack-horse constancy we keep the road
Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
True to the jingling of our leader's bells.
WILLIAM COWPER
The Task
Woe unto you, O torrent of human custom! Who shall stay your course? When will you ever run dry? How long will you carry down the sons of Eve into that vast and hideous ocean.
AUGUSTINE
Confessions
For the customs of the peoples are delusion;
Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.
They decorate it with silver and with gold;
They fasten it with nails and with hammers
So that it will not totter.
Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they,
And they cannot speak;
They must be carried,
Because they cannot walk!
Do not fear them,
For they can do no harm,
Nor can they do any good.
BIBLE
Jeremiah 10:3-5
Nice customs curtsy to great kings.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry V