Custom Quote by Blaise Pascal

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

— Blaise Pascal

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

— James F. Cooper

Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and…

— Stephen Covey

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken…

— Red Skelton

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the…

— Susan Sontag

Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

— Multatuli

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

— Seneca the Younger

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up…

— Max Lerner

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

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

Principles are what people have instead of God.

— Alexander Schmemann

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

— Plutarch