in America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed. — William Shakespeare 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
The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day. — Ellen Swallow Richards 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
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
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
The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
It is not your right—based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habits—to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can harm them,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people… — David Liss Copy Share Image
Mercedes nursed a special grievance - the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High-… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“[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
..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
