Quotes about Custom

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. Votes: 4

Custom alone regulates morals. Votes: 3

Custom is second nature. Votes: 3

Custom determines what is agreeable. Votes: 3

Custom does often reason overrule. Votes: 3

Custom adapts itself to expediency. Votes: 3

Custom reconciles us to everything. Votes: 3

Custom is the law of fools. Votes: 3

Custom is almost a second nature. Votes: 3

Custom makes monsters of us all. Votes: 3

Custom without truth is error grown old. Votes: 3

Custom doth make dotards of us all. Votes: 3

Custom is the great guide to human life. Votes: 3

Custom is often only the antiquity of error. Votes: 3

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life. Votes: 3

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful. Votes: 3

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth. Votes: 3

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures. Votes: 3

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had. Votes: 3

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. Votes: 3

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century. Votes: 3

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none. Votes: 3

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error. Votes: 3

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. Votes: 3

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. Votes: 3

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. Votes: 3

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? Votes: 3

Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me. Votes: 3

Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery.SHOW YOUR TONGUE Votes: 3

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted. Votes: 3

Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible. Votes: 3

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. Votes: 3

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. Votes: 3

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. Votes: 3

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. Votes: 3

A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House. Votes: 3

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous. Votes: 3

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. Votes: 3

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time. Votes: 3

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now. Votes: 3

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot. Votes: 3

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang. Votes: 3

Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead. Votes: 3

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant. Votes: 3

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar. Votes: 3

When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it. Votes: 3

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come. Votes: 3

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction. Votes: 3

This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model. Votes: 3

Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson. Votes: 3

Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink. Votes: 3

Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer. Votes: 3

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. Votes: 3

Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old; it is custom which hinders the husband from perceiving the change. Votes: 3

Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are. Votes: 3

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past. Votes: 3

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion. Votes: 3

Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world. Votes: 3

... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's what he's famous for, but his first Les Paul was a Custom like mine ... I can remember he played a Gretsch before that Votes: 3

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 the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present. Votes: 3

Cadence Encounter Conformal Custom provides a quicker turnaround as the result of its exhaustive verification without the use of stimuli, .. Cadence continues to invest in and enhance its Conformal solutions -- the industry's top verification flow and the only complete solution for integrated equivalency checking and functional verification. Votes: 3

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. Votes: 2

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. Votes: 2

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers. Votes: 2

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. Votes: 2

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. Votes: 2

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. Votes: 2

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it. Votes: 2

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. Votes: 2

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. Votes: 2

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. Votes: 2

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day. Votes: 2

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom. Votes: 2

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice. Votes: 2

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. Votes: 2

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal. Votes: 2

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself. Votes: 2

History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go. Votes: 2

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law. Votes: 2

It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war. Votes: 2

Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations. Votes: 2

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense. Votes: 2

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. Votes: 2

The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner. Votes: 2

The secret to my 5 o'clock shadow is a little device called the George Michael 3000 Custom Beard Trimmer and Personal Massager. Just kidding. I actually shave every morning, and thanks to my vast knowledge of Eastern philosophy and mysticism, I will my facial hair to grow to the exact same length each day. Dave Grohl taught me that one. Votes: 2

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually. Votes: 2

Habit had made the custom. Votes: 0

Laws are subordinate to custom. Votes: 0

In America, law substitutes for custom. Votes: 0

Two wives? That exceeds the custom. Votes: 0

Experience is the mother of custom. Votes: 0

Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love. Votes: 0

The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice. Votes: 0

An ancient custom obtains force of nature. Votes: 0

The empire of custom is most mighty. Votes: 0

The best interpreter of the law is custom. Votes: 0

The breach of custom Is breach of all. Votes: 0

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom. Votes: 0

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom. Votes: 0

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always. Votes: 0

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. Votes: 0

A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it. Votes: 0

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us. Votes: 0

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom? Votes: 0

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Votes: 0

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered. Votes: 0

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue. Votes: 0

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom Votes: 0

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth. Votes: 0

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom. Votes: 0

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom. Votes: 0

It is not the custom of kings to kill kings. Votes: 0

Spirituality is conversation with God, everything else is just religious custom. Votes: 0

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom? Votes: 0

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised. Votes: 0

All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning. Votes: 0

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom. Votes: 0

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. Votes: 0

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law. Votes: 0

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. Votes: 0

Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought. Votes: 0

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. Votes: 0

If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance. Votes: 0

American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. Votes: 0

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. Votes: 0

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. Votes: 0

How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born? Votes: 0

Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom. Votes: 0

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. Votes: 0

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature. Votes: 0

A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will. Votes: 0

It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness. Votes: 0

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. Votes: 0

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety. Votes: 0

I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes. Votes: 0

Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom. Votes: 0

Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality! Votes: 0

A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead. Votes: 0

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom. Votes: 0

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom. Votes: 0

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training. Votes: 0

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress? Votes: 0

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed. Votes: 0

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee. Votes: 0

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Votes: 0

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention. Votes: 0

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom. Votes: 0

Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status. Votes: 0

Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily. Votes: 0

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. Votes: 0

Every suit I wear is custom-made by a guy named Waraire Boswell in L.A. Votes: 0

For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands. Votes: 0

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. Votes: 0

Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom! Votes: 0

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. Votes: 0

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. Votes: 0

I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments. Votes: 0

Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin. Votes: 0

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest Votes: 0

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise. Votes: 0

Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith... Votes: 0

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Votes: 0

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. Votes: 0

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom. Votes: 0

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him. Votes: 0

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other. Votes: 0

It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year Votes: 0

Instead of a motorcycle, why not ride a custom-engineered unicorn? The unicorn could be genetically grown like corn. Votes: 0

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. Votes: 0

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation. Votes: 0

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. Votes: 0

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. Votes: 0

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things. Votes: 0

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it Votes: 0

We are the number one custom yacht builder in the world and my goal is to stay there Votes: 0

Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences. Votes: 0

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction. Votes: 0

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. Votes: 0

I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge. Votes: 0

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself. Votes: 0

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. Votes: 0

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. Votes: 0

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman. Votes: 0

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all. Votes: 0

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom. Votes: 0

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion. Votes: 0

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other. Votes: 0

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Votes: 0

The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom. Votes: 0

The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down. Votes: 0

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers. Votes: 0

During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn't like what they were making at the time. Votes: 0

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life. Votes: 0

In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear. Votes: 0

I also was a huge 'Dukes of Hazzard' fan. I used to have T-shirts that said 'Dierks of Hazzard' custom-made. Votes: 0

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. Votes: 0

In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Votes: 0

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy Votes: 0

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment. Votes: 0

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment Votes: 0

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity. Votes: 0

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws. Votes: 0

It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets. Votes: 0

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. Votes: 0

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. Votes: 0

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. Votes: 0

Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there. Votes: 0

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. Votes: 0

I started out doing everything on a custom scale and when that started paying the bills I started making more pieces. Votes: 0

The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it. Votes: 0

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self. Votes: 0

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom. Votes: 0

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason. Votes: 0

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. Votes: 0

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity. Votes: 0

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. Votes: 0

It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things. [Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.] Votes: 0

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday. Votes: 0

Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable. Votes: 0

They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.] Votes: 0

Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. Votes: 0

The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Votes: 0

I am in love with my La Cornue custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen. Votes: 0

At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning. Votes: 0

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right. Votes: 0

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse Votes: 0

I like walking into the studio everyday and having completely custom, diverse artwork to do. And my clients keep the interesting ideas flowing in. Votes: 0

You cannot attain #"Ž mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do Votes: 0

It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on. Votes: 0

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be. Votes: 0

The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading. Votes: 0

Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties. Votes: 0

RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it. Votes: 0

One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms? Votes: 0

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality. Votes: 0

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art. Votes: 0

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just. Votes: 0

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness. Votes: 0

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities? Votes: 0

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom. Votes: 0

In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense. Votes: 0

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred. Votes: 0

I had a love affair with life, and as is the custom, I will lose, but will regain a greater love with my heavenly Father. Votes: 0

The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled. Votes: 0

A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? custom is despot of mankind. Votes: 0

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period. Votes: 0

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law. Votes: 0

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life. Votes: 0

Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers. Votes: 0

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. Votes: 0

But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance. Votes: 0

America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances. Votes: 0

I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art, etc... but always custom. Votes: 0

Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories, and charitable in spirit. Votes: 0

What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture. Votes: 0

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport." Votes: 0

This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments. Votes: 0

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture. Votes: 0

What's with this weird hotel custom of leaving a piece of chocolate on the pillow? I awoke thinking my brain had hemorrhaged some sort of fecal matter. Votes: 0

neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power Votes: 0

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom. Votes: 0

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free. Votes: 0

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people. Votes: 0

I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice. Votes: 0

Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies; Votes: 0

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it. Votes: 0

I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrested from woman. Votes: 0

The universe is infinite, so there is room for everyone, for every belief, for every custom, and for every desire. You are in competition with no one but yourself. Votes: 0

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery. Votes: 0

I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas, and I was very big on my wife. Votes: 0

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs. Votes: 0

The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, True to the jingling of our leader's bells. Votes: 0

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship. Votes: 0

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it. Votes: 0

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion. Votes: 0

The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial. Votes: 0

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law. Votes: 0

The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace. Votes: 0

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. Votes: 0

Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying. Votes: 0

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education. Votes: 0

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation. Votes: 0

Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called a conference. Votes: 0

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion. Votes: 0

I'm in love with wigs. I get them custom-made, and I have my hairstylist shape them to my head. I can go from short to long in less than a minute! Votes: 0

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned. Votes: 0

Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred. Votes: 0

And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow The same tame slaves to custom and the world. Votes: 0

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination Votes: 0

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice. Votes: 0

I do not mean to suggest for a moment that all it takes to be a top executive is a custom-tailored European suit. You also need the correct shirt and tie. Votes: 0

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people. Votes: 0

What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority. Votes: 0

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time. Votes: 0

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous. Votes: 0

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members. Votes: 0

The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom. Votes: 0

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom. Votes: 0

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it Votes: 0

I think of the meaning of the word testimony. Originally it named the custom of two men holding each other's testicles in a gesture of trust, later to metamorphose into the handshake. Votes: 0

Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom. Votes: 0

They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence. Votes: 0

The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. Votes: 0

Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded when health is considered of more importance than fashion. Votes: 0

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom. Votes: 0

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers. Votes: 0

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved. Votes: 0

Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages. Votes: 0

Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment. Votes: 0

Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice. Votes: 0

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality? Votes: 0

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. Votes: 0

Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society Votes: 0

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it. Votes: 0

There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge. Votes: 0