Custom Quotes

367 quotes by 277 authors

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
Custom is second nature. — Saint Augustine
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it… — Marcus Aurelius
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply… — Teresa of Avila
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. — Francis Bacon
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of… — Ruth Benedict
Custom reconciles us to everything. — Edmund Burke
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. — Samuel Butler
It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords,… — Sholom Aleichem
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. — Dante Alighieri
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well,… — Lord Chesterfield
The best interpreter of the law is custom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety. — Arthur Conan Doyle
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of… — Lord Acton
Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing… — Nachman of Breslov
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment. — William Shakespeare
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. — Samuel Johnson
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom. — Mark Twain
To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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