“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp! — Kerry King Copy Share Image
The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . .… — Maimonides 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
The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange… — Hanadi Falki 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
Turkey has a customs union with the E.U. - it still means there are checks on the border between Turkey and the… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning… — Ivan Illich 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
He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents;… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible,… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
The danger is to cling to comfort and custom at a time when events demand breaking away from both. But it is… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I'll now fall back a furlong or two in me chair, while me larned but misguided collagues r-read th' Histhry iv Iceland… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for… — Alan Bock Copy Share Image
This conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important and I'm very… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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