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
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted. — Blaise Pascal 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
Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and… — John Money Copy Share Image
Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
What's with this weird hotel custom of leaving a piece of chocolate on the pillow? I awoke thinking my brain had hemorrhaged… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with… — Barry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold. — Vayalar Ravi Copy Share Image
I once undertook on behalf of a friend to smuggle a small dog through the customs. I was of ample proportions, and… — Mrs. Patrick Campbell Copy Share Image
In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
. . . [Y]ou must understand that we have always considered the writing of books a hindrance to our work, and that… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I wish I didn't get searched when I come through customs. I wish Christians stop beefin' with Muslims, Wish the poor didn't… — Ed O.G Copy Share Image
Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities,… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
It used to be the custom for the bachelor dinner to take place the night before the wedding. Now, however, the bridesmaids'… — Alice-Leone Moats Copy Share Image
If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
However much pains may be taken to combine the soldier and the citizen in one and the same individual, whatever may be… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt. — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most. — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents, — Pope Francis Copy Share Image