Quotes About Tradition

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There's a special punishment Christians would suggest.

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?

Ladies playing cricket? Absurd. Just like a man trying to knit

Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.

Maybe I am too traditional, but men feel important when you ask for their help instead of thinking you can do it all on your own.

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.