Customs Quote by John Vanbrugh Download Open image “Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.” — John Vanbrugh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Customs Fool Law
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of… — Fanny Burney 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
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws. — Anonymous 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
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is necessary to obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not go against the universal customs of the Church,… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
One of the Canadian customs guards got suspicious and said 'Haven't you been coming and going across the border a lot lately?' I finally… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
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