Customs Quote by Andrew Michael Ramsay Download Open image “Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.” — Andrew Michael Ramsay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Customs Diminish Increase Intense Moderates Pleasure
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health. — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign. — James Norwood Pratt Copy Share Image
The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the contradictory idea… — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes. — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere. — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 has something… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is necessary to obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not go against the universal customs of the Church,… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
One of the Canadian customs guards got suspicious and said 'Haven't you been coming and going across the border a lot lately?' I finally… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
