The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day. — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
“They got the loot through customs in their carry-on bags by mixing the artifacts in with a lot of “tourist junk” bought… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation,… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
When I came in from Paris recently, for some reason the guy from customs wanted to know what kind of music I… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
All men are partially buried inthe grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What has been imposed on religion is not religion itself but the custom of those who have been converted to it. I… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Anything to declare? the customs inspector said."Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art," Mark answered, looking about for… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is… — Franz Rosenzweig Copy Share Image
When you get older, you realize something: all those stupid mores and customs related to how a man should comport himself in… — Jason Mulgrew Copy Share Image
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue… — Noah Worcester Copy Share Image
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag… — Robert Smith Surtees Copy Share Image
It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs,… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
“for what is to be done is not for police or of the customs. It must be done by us alone and… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High-… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide… — Kit Bond Copy Share Image
By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and… — John Medina Copy Share Image
What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Freedom is where you can live, as pleases a brave heart; where you can live according to the customs and laws of… — Ernst Moritz Arndt Copy Share Image
