Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead. — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they… — Aime Martin Copy Share Image
“In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker explained.” — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there. — Charlotte Ronson Copy Share Image
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing,… — Jeff Ament 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
In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced… — Carlton J. H. Hayes Copy Share Image
We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
In my home office, I built a custom sit-stand desk to which I connected a big, kidney shaped glass top which I… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the… — Alberto Moravia 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
I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has a plan, that he laid out in Arizona, that will deal systematically with illegal immigration, beginning with border security,… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of liberal societies arises from the commitment to tolerance. A society committed to respecting the viewpoints and customs… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
From early Colonial days, sex life in America had been based on the custom of men supporting women. That situation reached its… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures. — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
