Custom Quotes

367 quotes by 277 authors

This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses… — Jeff Ament
Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom! — John Keats
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it. — John Owen
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experienceâ€¦it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose… — Carolyn Heilbrun
Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith... — Benjamin Franklin
Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in… — Catherine Booth
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom. — John Stuart Mill
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him. — Teresa of Avila
Logic is a poor guide compared with custom. — Winston Churchill
Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this. — William Shakespeare
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of… — Sinclair Lewis
You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other… — Elizabeth Gilbert
There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person… — Marcel Proust
Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever… — John Calvin
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it. — Ambrose Bierce
Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought. — Jules Renard
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. — Ronald Reagan
USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy… — Ambrose Bierce
Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly… — Earnest Hooton
The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all. — Djuna Barnes

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