Customs Quote by Joshua K. Ingalls

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

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

— Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

— Francis Bacon

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

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

— Albert Camus

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

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

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

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

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