Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and… — George Cheyne Copy Share Image
I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art,… — William Webb Copy Share Image
Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it. — Desi Arnaz 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
If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation… — Curt Sachs 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
But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the… — William Shakespeare 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
I remember when I posed as a customs officer so that I could meet Oscar Wilde. I said to him "Have you… — Simon Munnery Copy Share Image
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought… — John Stuart Mill 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
The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
What is religion? I want to remove the chaff from the grain. For me it is not what it is for the… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom.… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
