Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“In love afairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites… — Anne Tyler 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
Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to… — Horace Mann 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
The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses… — Nachman of Breslov Copy Share Image
American soldiers [are] going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept,… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib… — Rand Beers Copy Share Image
To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When I was a child, for a public/civil servant to be caught in corrupt practices, that individual will be a pariah. He… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets,… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
What has been imposed on religion is not religion itself but the custom of those who have been converted to it. I… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image