Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality! — Mae West Copy Share Image
The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all. — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn't like what they were making at the time. — Robin Trower Copy Share Image
They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur… — Jean Froissart Copy Share Image
When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib… — Rand Beers Copy Share Image
I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly,… — Dominic West Copy Share Image
... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A huge part of the American trans population that's often overlooked are trans teenagers. Many of them are homeless, and those are… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
But there is no equality of opportunity under existing laws and customs. In the race for wealth, which the economist seems as… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this,… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
In The Moon, Come to Earth Philip Graham takes us on the best kind of journey, as he simultaneously reveals the fascinating… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them." "They do. You just can't see… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
I've traveled everywhere, and it's been amazing. I used to think taking a flight was kind of a big deal, you know?… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image