Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality'… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs,… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the… — Samuel Williams Copy Share Image
Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. "Everything… — Mrs. Patrick Campbell Copy Share Image
Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
