Culture Quote by John Vanbrugh Download Open image “Custom is the law of fools.” — John Vanbrugh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Customs Fool Law
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now. — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
“Shield me, kind heaven, what an inundation of impertinence is here coming upon us!” — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
We're gaily yet, we're gaily yet, And we're not very fow, but we're gaily yet; Then set ye awhile, and tipple a bit, For… — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
“How I should despise such a thing if I were a man. What a nose she has! what a chin! what a neck! Then… — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven… — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
