Quotes About Tradition

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.

All men begin their learning with Homer.

Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.

One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

These simple terms—"come about," for example—denote procedures that are as complicated and tradition-bound as the installation of a new Pope.

The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness.

Now there are many Shaftoes—mostly in Tennessee—but the Shaftoe family tree still fits on a cross-stitch sampler.

It didn't matter whether "football" for you was soccer or the American sport played by men in helmets.

Stand-up peeing in a long flowing garment could lead to various mishaps.

If he's got a big yellow scarf over his left shoulder, he's the king. Bow lower in that case.

serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

It is in their very irrationality, their arbitrariness, that they are refined," d'Avaux corrected her. "If the customs of the nobility made sense, anyone could figure them out, and become noble. But because they are incoherent and meaningless, not to mention ever-changing, the only way to know them is to be inculcated with them, to absorb them through the skin. This makes them a coin that is almost impossible to counterfeit.

On the social front it was a question of Amistics, which was a term that had been coined ages ago by a Moiran anthropologist to talk about the choices that different cultures made as to which technologies they would, and would not, make part of their lives. The word went all the way back to the Amish people of pre-Zero America, who had chosen to use certain modern technologies, such as roller skates, but not others, such as internal combustion engines. All cultures