Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things. [Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our troops should not conform to customs that represent the marginalization of people and are incongruent with our fundamental values. — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person… — Dana Milbank Copy Share Image
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions,… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Customs and traditions followed in North and South India are different. But the underlying sentiments are the same. — Raashi Khanna Copy Share Image
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I started out doing everything on a custom scale and when that started paying the bills I started making more pieces. — Fred Foster Copy Share Image
The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom,… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
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