There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Customs is punishment for those who travel. This will teach you for traveling to our country! — Godfrey Copy Share Image
Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers. — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon. — Wernher von Braun 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
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton 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
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth. — Aaron Hill 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
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
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
Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I have my boots custom-fitted in Cardiff. Everyone s feet are different, so to get measured up is a great bonus. You… — Peter Crouch Copy Share Image
If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“He wonders aloud at the origins of valentining. 'You're right,' Rachel says. 'It is a verb. Can be. And birds valentine each… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other. — Michel de Montaigne 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
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