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
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality! — Mae West Copy Share Image
Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas,… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them… — Mark Twain 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
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
This is the day when people reciprocally offer, and receive, the kindest and the warmest wishes, though, in general, without meaning them… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God?… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person… — Dana Milbank 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
When you get older, you realize something: all those stupid mores and customs related to how a man should comport himself in… — Jason Mulgrew Copy Share Image
Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is… — Franz Rosenzweig Copy Share Image
There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue… — Noah Worcester Copy Share Image
We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different:… — Thomas Hobbes 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
American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
