Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which… — Carolyn Heilbrun 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
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
Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of… — Voltaire 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
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital,… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered… — Israel Shenker 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
Much of eating is about customs and habits, and we've developed some unfortunate ones. Not enough families eat together. We eat in… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the… — John Quincy Adams 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
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
I have heard that M. Guesdon is dictating lessons to his seminarians. This is contrary to the custom of the Company and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
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