Arbitrary Quote by Anonymous

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

The law is like apparel, which alters with the time

— John Dodderidge

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

— Anonymous

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

— Grover Cleveland

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.

— Grover Cleveland

Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.

— John Vanbrugh

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

— George Santayana

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

— Mark Twain

Fashion is fortunately no law but to its devotees.

— Horace Walpole

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

— George Bernard Shaw

Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.

— Joseph Sobran