Quotes About Tradition

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms... ...the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered- as a storyteller. A good storyteller.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

The hardest thing for me is crying. Where I'm from, it's been instilled in me since I was little that men don't cry. Thank God for teardrops and menthol.

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.