If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith... — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances. — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
You have to understand that under One Country, Two Systems, we are a separate customs authority in the same way we are… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
I’ve played on literally every brand of US drums out there, and I’ve finally found my home. I’ve been looking for drums… — Tre Cool Copy Share Image
We have to wear clothes, a requirement of custom, but more time, temper, character, and peace of mind, not to mention money,… — Kate Langley Bosher Copy Share Image
One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is… — William Torrey Harris Copy Share Image
Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When we pulled in, the customs officer looked in the back. The back of the wagon was filled with cases stenciled PINK… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined… — Strabo Copy Share Image
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I think a platform such as YouTube has to respect local laws and customs. — Chad Hurley Copy Share Image
Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
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