Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most. — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they… — Aime Martin Copy Share Image
In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and… — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Immigration customs enforcement is a role that makes sense. We have to have something that is doing that. — Katie Hill Copy Share Image
I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
What is religion? I want to remove the chaff from the grain. For me it is not what it is for the… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands… — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
However much pains may be taken to combine the soldier and the citizen in one and the same individual, whatever may be… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined… — Strabo Copy Share Image
There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel,… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it… — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
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