Conventional Quote by Sinclair Lewis

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst…

— Charlotte Bronte

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be…

— Nelson Mandela

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

— Anonymous

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

— Megan McArdle

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding…

— René Descartes

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

— Thomas Paine

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

— Friedrich Schiller

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

— William Hazlitt

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

— Aaron Hill

New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.

— William Shakespeare