Quotes About Tradition

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Nothing is more powerful than habit.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

We are reformers in Spring and Summer; in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

Our mothers and our grandmothers, some of them: moving to music not yet written.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

The trodden path is the safest.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

I'll wager that in ten years it will be fashionable again to be a virgin.

Definition of a Jewish nymphomaniac: A woman who will make love the same day she has her hair done.

In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.

A leap year Is never a good sheep year.

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

The wisdom of our ancestors.