"To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is……" — Catherynne M. Valente

More Customs Quotes

This quote is filed under Customs Quotes, one of 252 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen… — Francis Bacon
• No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs… — Ruth Benedict
• I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States,… — Buffalo Bill
• I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. — Danny Boyle
• If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files… — Jeb Bush
• There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. — Albert Camus
• There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past… — Graydon Carter
• The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. — Dante Alighieri
• The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body)… — George Washington
• I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what… — Alexander Shulgin
• Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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