Quotes About Tradition

Something old something new Something borrowed something blue.

In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote etc).

A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife !

So long as the new moon returns in heaven a bent, beautiful bow, so long will the fascination of archery keep hold in the hearts of men.

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

I'm a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.

Junk runs in the family. My granddad was a junk man in St. Louis and so was my uncle.

A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.

I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.

Men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero today.

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.