"The less there is to justify a traditional……" — Mark Twain
"The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it"
More Custom Quotes
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- Custom is second nature. — Saint Augustine
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be… — Marcus Aurelius
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are… — Teresa of Avila
- People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to… — Francis Bacon
- No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs… — Ruth Benedict
- Custom reconciles us to everything. — Edmund Burke
- Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. — Samuel Butler
- It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head… — Sholom Aleichem
- The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. — Dante Alighieri
- Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may… — Lord Chesterfield
- The best interpreter of the law is custom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero