Custom Quotes

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Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century. — Mark Twain
But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the… — William Shakespeare
The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself. — Thomas a Kempis
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature. — Plutarch
Custom is almost a second nature. — Plutarch
Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful. — Michel de Montaigne
Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that… — Charles Caleb Colton
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes… — Mark Twain
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. — Michel de Montaigne
America has never forgotten - and will never forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the… — Bernard Baruch
Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. — Ovid
...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.… — Albert Schweitzer
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and… — H. L. Mencken
Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for… — Shana Alexander
The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use… — George Washington
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or… — Thomas Paine
And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles… — David Hume

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