Custom Quotes

367 quotes by 274 authors

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. — William Hazlitt
One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms? — Tom Hodgkinson
Custom is the great guide to human life. — David Hume
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. — David Hume
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. — Soren Kierkegaard
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He… — Walter Lippmann
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. — John Stuart Mill
I am in love with my La Cornue custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen. — Kylie Minogue
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. — Michel de Montaigne
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? — Blaise Pascal
Laws are subordinate to custom. — Plautus
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it… — Lysander Spooner
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus… — Martin Filler
Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they… — Douglas Rushkoff
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in… — Thomas Paine
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. — George Bernard Shaw
Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they canâ€™t seeâ€¦So the… — Andy Warhol
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a… — Oscar Wilde
It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided… — Douglas Adams

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