Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. — Albert Camus 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
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
It is necessary to obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not go against the universal customs of… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
One of the Canadian customs guards got suspicious and said 'Haven't you been coming and going across the border a lot lately?'… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's… — Graydon Carter 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
In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs,… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Since the women are the ones who bear the babies, and there's nothing we can do about that, our laws and customs… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom! — John Keats Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they… — Aime Martin 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
