Custom Quotes

367 quotes by 274 authors

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life. — Bill Gates
The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied American individualism in… — Geoffrey Ward
Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various… — Tyler Cowen
A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it. — Vincent Piazza
We read that Adam and Methuselah lived so many centuries; at that time, it was the custom to marry in the family - marry as… — Max Heindel
If, as is the custom, I speak mainly about my own researches, I must say that I was fortunate in finding that not everything had… — Wilhelm Wien
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law… — Benjamin Cardozo
When I was a child, I probably should have been medicated about my obsession with The Spice Girls. I had the Buffalo shoes, a customised… — Blake Lively
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. — Robert Hall
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive… — Richard Harris
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have… — William Temple
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation… — William Robertson Smith
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. — Charles Davenport
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and… — Jean Froissart
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted… — Felix Adler
The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday. — Felix Adler
I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom. — Adam Jones
To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100… — Tom Selleck
While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place,… — Saint Ignatius
And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom… — Bible

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