If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play. — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention. — Plato Copy Share Image
Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I get it custom, you a customer. You aint customed to going through Customs, you aint been nowhere, huh? — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You have to understand that under One Country, Two Systems, we are a separate customs authority in the same way we are… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The danger is to cling to comfort and custom at a time when events demand breaking away from both. But it is… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible,… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents;… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt. — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
