quotations about custom
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
SINCLAIR LEWIS
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Main Street
How many unjust and wicked things are sanctioned by custom.
TERENCE
attributed, Day's Collacon
My normal isn't your normal, and your normal isn't anyone else's normal. In fact, on this journey called life, normal isn't normal.
TYEISHA BREWER-FIELDS
Normal By Whose Standards?
So they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves according to their custom with swords and lances until the blood gushed out on them.
BIBLE
1 Kings 18:28
Cast away the bondage and the fear of rotten custom.
HARTLEY COLERIDGE
Sonnets
Just because you have become accustomed to a thing, does not make it right.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Atreides
Woe unto you, O torrent of human custom! Who shall stay your course? When will you ever run dry? How long will you carry down the sons of Eve into that vast and hideous ocean.
AUGUSTINE
Confessions
A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
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.
WILLIAM COWPER
The Task
Custom is a violent and deceiving school-mistress.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Essays
Custom is the sovereign of mortals and of gods: with its powerful hand it regulates things the most violent.
PINDARUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
JOSEPH W. KRUTCH
The Modern Temper
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
We have brought in the yoke of custom to improve the world, and in the world the custom sticks.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Physics and Politics
What custom hath endeared
We part with sadly, though we prize it not.
JOANNA BAILLIE
Basil
When a custom is actually proved to exist, the next enquiry is into the legality of it; for if it is not a good custom it ought to be no longer used.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Commentaries on the Laws of England
'Tis nothing when you are used to it.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Polite Conversation
But to my mind, though I am native here,
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
I cannot draw a distinction as to what length of time will render a practice legal.
C. J. DALLAS
Butt v. Conant, 1828
Nice customs curtsy to great kings.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry V