A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom! — John Keats Copy Share Image
Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible. — John Mayer Copy Share Image
All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning. — David Hume Copy Share Image
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead. — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Canada and America are very, very different. It's true that we share a language and many customs. But Americans have a very… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. — Emily Post 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
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
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
He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents;… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands… — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Copy Share Image
Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Freedom, by its nature, must be chosen, and defended by citizens, and sustained by the rule of law and the protection of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
For the multiculturist/diversity crowd, culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial membership where one has no more control… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
