« All Custom Quotes · Samuel Johnson's Page
Custom Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
- 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…
- Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often…
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
- 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
- Custom is second nature. — Saint Augustine
- 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