Custom Quotes

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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. — Hector Hugh Munro
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof… — King James I
If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent… — Martin Luther
The present custom of orthodox Christendom, in packing their sins upon the back of a God, is just the same substantially as that of various… — Kersey Graves
A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order… — Derren Brown
Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom. — Marguerite Yourcenar
It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to heaven… — Philip Neri
Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity. — Rabindranath Tagore
Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner… — John Quincy Adams
There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help… — Cyril Connolly
We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned custom of going… — Derek Tangye
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones:… — Janet Fitch
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which,… — Thomas Malthus
Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of… — Robert Adams
The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect… — Joseph Haydn
For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet,… — Michel de Montaigne
The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous,… — Saint Augustine
Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the… — Terry Pratchett

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