Customs Quote by Terence Download Open image “How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?” — Terence ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Customs Justice Unjust
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
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
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. — Plato Copy Share Image
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. — Joseph Wood Krutch 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
I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. — Terence Copy Share Image
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy. — Terence Copy Share Image
It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests. — Terence 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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