Quotes About Tradition

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

We usually have margaritas on Thursdays but since it's Tuesday I'll make an exception.

Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions.

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.

Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?

"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

My family has a Christmas tradition: Every year, they kill my mom.

Because he was English and that's what the English do under stress: they drink tea.

Ah, that's just sean nós singing and dancing. Something to do around the pub of an evening.

In my opinion, kissing a lady's hand is a fine tradition. After all, a man must start somewhere.

Ish #1 "It's not your mama's macaroni and cheese if you used spaghetti noodles.

...every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment).