Benevolent Quote by Timothy Shay Arthur

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but…

— Michel de Montaigne

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

— Mark Twain

“Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more…

— Vilém Flusser

Custom is almost a second nature.

— Plutarch

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Once upon a time there was a great queen who, having given birth to twin daughters, invited twelve fairies who lived nearby to come…

— Marie-Catharine d'Aulnoy

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

— Epictetus

Custom is second nature.

— Saint Augustine

Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

— Cyprian

If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and the first…

— John Medina