Customs is punishment for those who travel. This will teach you for traveling to our country! — Godfrey Copy Share Image
Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures. — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought. — Jules Renard 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
In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation… — Herodotus 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
From early Colonial days, sex life in America had been based on the custom of men supporting women. That situation reached its… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of liberal societies arises from the commitment to tolerance. A society committed to respecting the viewpoints and customs… — Martha Minow 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
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
