Culture Quote by Bill Vaughan

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

— Charlotte Lennox

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.

— John Stuart Mill

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us…

— David Hume

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life

— Anonymous

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— John Vanbrugh

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

— Terence

Custom is almost a second nature.

— Plutarch

Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools

— Thomas Fuller

“Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more…

— Vilém Flusser

Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old;…

— Timothy Shay Arthur

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things…

— Charles Caleb Colton