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Custom Quotes by Mark Twain
- Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
- Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.
- A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes…
- 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,…
- Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
- Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.
- You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
- 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.
- It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.
- The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it
- But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been…
- We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a…
- Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
More Custom Quotes
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- Custom is second nature. — Saint Augustine
- Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses… — Nachman of Breslov
- In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear. — Jodi Picoult
- No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions… — Ruth Benedict
- The best interpreter of the law is custom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero