"New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous……" — William Shakespeare
"New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed."
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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People usually are the happiest at home.
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In delay there lies no plenty.
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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Grief makes one hour ten.
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Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
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I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting…
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
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More Customs Quotes
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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen…
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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs…
— Ruth Benedict
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I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States,…
— Buffalo Bill
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I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
— Danny Boyle
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If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files…
— Jeb Bush
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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
— Albert Camus
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There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past…
— Graydon Carter
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
— Dante Alighieri
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body)…
— George Washington
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I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what…
— Alexander Shulgin
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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