"Nature makes us poor only when we want……" — Samuel Johnson

More Custom Quotes

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• 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

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