Quotes About Customs

The blessing was an empty ritual, she knew, but rituals and ceremonies had power in the eyes of the ignorant.

Summer Islanders. That's how they mourn. They answer death with life.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.

Man would have known he was the son of God; and therein lies your miracle. And not just a notion picked up in books. Because we'd have made that idea the basis of everything: habits, customs, relaxation, pleasure, down to the simplest needs. That wouldn't have stopped the labourer ploughing, or the scientist swotting at his algorithms... what we would have torn from the very heart of Adam is the sense of his own loneliness.

Men make laws; women make manners.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Valgymas yra ritualas, o ritualai lengvina gyvenimÄ….

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

I don't walk under a ladder, or open an umbrella in a room. I have always been superstitious.

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.

...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes is safer amongst them than in the neighbouring Cossack settlements.

When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.

Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.

Culture is coded wisdom

Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to give people newer and fresh rituals. A party of thinkers must undertake to do this. Old rituals must be rejected and new ones substituted.

Etiquette is the stuff you gotta do just 'cause that's how everyone else does it. Like holding your fork in your left hand, or saying 'Bless you' if someone sneezes. Manners is treating people with respect.

The oldest of the service branches, the Army as an insitution has maintained the protocol, customs, and courtesies of a bygone era. At their best these can be an indearing salute to the past: The gracious homes, the parades and pageantry, the patriotic speeches, the uniforms and balls are all throwbacks to a simpler, more innocent time.

Just as we grow to understand the purpose of customs that seemed pointless to us in our youth,

As recently as the twentieth century, some cultures retained religious prohibitions asserting the "uncleanliness" of believers eating at the same table as musicians.

Because the Spanish eat so crazily late - anybody who's been to Spain has had the experience of sitting down at 9:30 P.M. to find themselves the first customer in the restaurant - they tend to favour an early-evening drink and a nibble to keep them going.

Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.