Culture Quote by Vilém Flusser

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

— Mark Twain

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us…

— David Hume

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 ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

— Charlotte Lennox

Custom is almost a second nature.

— Plutarch

Custom is second nature.

— Saint Augustine

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

Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

— Cyprian

Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old;…

— Timothy Shay Arthur

“Custom brings predictability, and predictability carries its own comforts.”

— Robert James Waller

Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools

— Thomas Fuller