Custom Quotes

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Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror,… — Cheryl Clarke
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting… — Lydia M. Child
Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident… — William Torrey Harris
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of… — Samuel Johnson
Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in… — Adam Clarke
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. — Samuel Daniel
Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not,… — Thomas Starr King
Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions.… — S. J. Perelman
Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities… — Edward Burnett Tylor
... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's… — Albert Lee
Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom. — Brand Blanshard
Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do,… — J C Ryle
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. — Robert Green Ingersoll
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private,… — Mark Twain
Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence,… — R. Scott Bakker
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws. — Alexandre Dumas
Iâ€™ve played on literally every brand of US drums out there, and Iâ€™ve finally found my home. Iâ€™ve been looking for drums like these my… — Tre Cool

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