Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
'Custom is the great deadener.' There is no doubt that we of the white race are going on obliviously supporting customs that… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange… — Hanadi Falki Copy Share Image
According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Turkey has a customs union with the E.U. - it still means there are checks on the border between Turkey and the… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible,… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
The danger is to cling to comfort and custom at a time when events demand breaking away from both. But it is… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe it is essential to have English as the official language of our National Government, for the English language is the… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“I'll now fall back a furlong or two in me chair, while me larned but misguided collagues r-read th' Histhry iv Iceland… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
This conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important and I'm very… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
![“On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. (Matthew 2:11) [This] adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned…” quote by Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/58b/martin-luther-106_adoration_on-coming-to-the-house-they-the-magi-saw_1061270.jpg)
