Custom Quotes

367 quotes by 274 authors

The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order… — Mark Driscoll
I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes. — Janelle Monae
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had. — Joseph Wood Krutch
I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof,… — Williston Fish
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often… — Samuel Johnson
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church… — Ambrose
A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are… — Michel de Montaigne
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. — Henry David Thoreau
Habit had made the custom. — Unknown Author
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of… — William Shakespeare
It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed. — Mark Twain
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges… — Erich Fromm
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete… — Oscar Wilde
We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs… — Thomas Carlyle
It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too… — Dalai Lama
Big box just wasn't our strength. We are a men's and boy's specialty store focused on providing high quality clothing with custom tailoring. Our customer… — Paul Simon
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin. — Philip Massinger

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