Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers. — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Please note your extensive customs briefing and remember to relinquish any illegal tools or concepts you may be carrying before debarkation.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is,… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You have to understand that under One Country, Two Systems, we are a separate customs authority in the same way we are… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was,… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved… — Albert Lee Copy Share Image
Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the… — Dan Poynter 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
The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of… — Henry David Thoreau 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
There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“He wonders aloud at the origins of valentining. 'You're right,' Rachel says. 'It is a verb. Can be. And birds valentine each… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
