“The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I'm Punjabi and speak Punjabi fluently and know all the Indian customs and everything. — Jinder Mahal Copy Share Image
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don't really know if I would consider myself anything in particular. I would say I'm inspired in a Hasidic way, but… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition! — RuPaul Copy Share Image
It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties,… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but… — Harry Emerson Fosdick 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
Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention. — Plato Copy Share Image
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play. — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters... — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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