Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of… — Kendrick Meek Copy Share Image
All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker explained.” — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there. — Charlotte Ronson Copy Share Image
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by… — Warren Farrell 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
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
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. There were many societies, but each, within its own… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
I've traveled everywhere, and it's been amazing. I used to think taking a flight was kind of a big deal, you know?… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
“Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them." "They do. You just can't see… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality! — Mae West Copy Share Image
The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all. — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents, — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
