Quotes About Tradition

Indian saying in Saskatchewan

You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.

I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day, but no change at all ivry fifty years.

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.

Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why, he does.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised.

If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued.

You can't ring the bells and, at the same time, walk in the procession.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.

Other times, other customs.

Ancient custom has the force of law.

Custom is the law of fools.

The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.