Quotes About Customs

Crear un país de leyes significa arrancar esa costumbre de un sector todavía amplio de la sociedad mexicana.

She never blows her nose. A form of speech: the lesser for the greater.

Nothing needs reforming," he said by way of beginning, "so much as other people's habits.

We should advocate that the North should stay in the customs union and the single market and that any customs checks should be in the ports and airports, not on land borders.

I hope the unionist parties, for example, who would be keen to protect and preserve the Union would see that it's much easier to do that if the U.K. stays within the Customs Union and the Single Market, because that would take away the need for any special arrangement, or bespoke solution, for Northern Ireland.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

Men hand out cigars. Women 'hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

For the last 25 years, myself and everybody in UKIP has worked to restore our country's former status as an independent, democratic nation that is governed by our politicians, elected by us, sackable by us, in accordance with our laws and customs and constitution.

In Kazakhstan, once you're someone's guest, it's really hard to get away - everyone wants you to stay. They believe that if you invite a guest, luck will fly into your house.

What I'm trying to do is just sing what comes to my body in the context of the song. And if you go by the emotion of the song, it's almost like stepping into a city. Cities have certain customs and rules and laws you can break, and that's what I was doing.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Quizá los pensamientos que expongo en las siguientes páginas aún no están en boga ni tienen el favor general. El viejo hábito de no pensar que algo está mal puede dar la sensación de que está bien, y genera en un primer momento el impulso de defender las costumbres. Pero el tumulto pronto se apacigua. El tiempo hace más conversos que la razón.

Because traditions are like eggs—once you break one, it is impossible to put it back inside its shell.

What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me.

North Korea is a very Confucius country. We respect the elders, the hierarchy. It's not like America where anyone can step up and do things, we have our tradition.

The only way Brexit might have worked without an economic collapse is the Norway model of close integration with the structure of the European customs union and single market without being part of the formal E.U. institutions.

When you work in Norway, you actually have to have a contract about lunches because Norwegians don't eat lunch normally, so they just throw out a loaf of bread and some coldcuts.

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

It's very important with these young people who are graduating and getting married to write thank-you notes.

Every time I enter a country and have to write down my occupation at customs, I'm like, 'I don't know... Author? Host? Writer? Stand-up?' I usually write 'author' - that's the safest bet.

In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.

Our ancestors used to torture criminals before they executed them—it's in times like these that one truly understands the importance of tradition.