“He wonders aloud at the origins of valentining. 'You're right,' Rachel says. 'It is a verb. Can be. And birds valentine each… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
A huge part of the American trans population that's often overlooked are trans teenagers. Many of them are homeless, and those are… — Lena Dunham 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
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
All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
I have my boots custom-fitted in Cardiff. Everyone s feet are different, so to get measured up is a great bonus. You… — Peter Crouch Copy Share Image
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as… — Charlotte Lennox 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 habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art. — Raja Ravi Varma Copy Share Image
“I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors. — Guy de Maupassant 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
