Custom Quotes

367 quotes by 277 authors

Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and… — Sterling W Sill
I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four… — Richard MacDonald
No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating… — Benjamin Martin
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggarâ€™s dinner, from a hundred charities? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in case of being… — Richard Hough
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you… — Ambrose
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain
There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other. — Michel de Montaigne
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom. — Michel de Montaigne
Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised. — Michel de Montaigne
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and… — Michel de Montaigne
Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will. — William Shakespeare
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till… — William Shakespeare
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom. — Mark Twain
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period. — Mark Twain
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous,… — Thomas Carlyle
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the… — Jane Austen
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth. — Agnes Repplier
Custom adapts itself to expediency. — Tacitus

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