Customs Quotes · Page 4

America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her…

— Bernard Baruch

I like walking into the studio everyday and having completely custom, diverse artwork to do. And my clients keep the interesting ideas…

— William Webb

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.

— Benjamin Franklin

The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt…

— Saint Augustine

It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's…

— Michael Bierut

“You gotta look backwards to go forwards.”

— Fennel Hudson

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.

— William Shakespeare

The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in…

— William Shakespeare

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we don’t. First we want to understand something according…

— Dainin Katagiri

Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most…

— Robert Fulghum

Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane,…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it…

— Prince Philip

It is not the custom of kings to kill kings.

— Saladin

I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value…

— John Malkovich

A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over…

— Derren Brown

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

— Walter Savage Landor

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed,…

— Peter Kropotkin

Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police…

— D. Todd Christofferson

The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not…

— Joseph Haydn

When I was growing up, I cared very little for the customs of my parents, the special things that we're supposed to…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us…

— Benjamin Franklin