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Customs Quotes by Mark Twain
- Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is…
- Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
More Customs Quotes
- Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions… — Ruth Benedict
- I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving… — Buffalo Bill
- The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be… — George Washington
- I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put… — Alexander Shulgin
- There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones. — Alfred Lord Tennyson