Custom Quotes
367 quotes by 277 authors
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
— Mary Astell
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Custom is second nature.
— Saint Augustine
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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
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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
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
— Francis Bacon
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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
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
— Edmund Burke
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Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
— Samuel Butler
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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
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
— Dante Alighieri
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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
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The best interpreter of the law is custom.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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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
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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
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I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.
— William Shakespeare
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Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
— Samuel Johnson
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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
— Mark Twain
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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Who Wrote These Custom Quotes
277 authors contributed a total of 367 Custom Quotes, led by these top contributors: