Custom Quotes

367 quotes by 277 authors

If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this, we are surely… — Gregory of Nyssa
Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on… — Martin Chemnitz
It is not the custom of kings to kill kings. — Saladin
..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and… — David Hume
It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . .… — Paul Gallico
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms… — Judith Martin
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. — Plato
At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning. — Hugh Nibley
I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers. — Jack Dee
Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out… — Rainer Maria Rilke
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy — Bertrand Russell
We are the number one custom yacht builder in the world and my goal is to stay there — Felix Sabates
If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an… — Lewis Tappan
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and… — George Cheyne
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of… — Oscar Wilde
It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on. — Prince Philip
Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will… — Joshua Reynolds
Custom is often only the antiquity of error. — Cyprian
The empire of custom is most mighty. — Publilius Syrus

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