Quotes About Customs

La tenancière m'offrit une assiettée d'amandes grillées et me promit sa meilleure fille pour fêter ma majorité. – Sans rancune, petit? – Sans rancune, madame. – Comme c'est touchant... Et puis, arrête de me broder avec tes « madame », ça me constipe.

You're at a Jewish wedding. How can you tell if it's Orthodox, Reform, or Liberal? A: In an Orthodox wedding, the bride's mother is pregnant. In a Reform wedding, the bride is pregnant. In a Liberal wedding the rabbi is pregnant.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." Before

People in south China will eat everything that flies in the sky, except an airplane.

Things have their place. You wouldn't hang dreidels from a Christmas tree.

One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

Religion is a set of rituals.

Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state -- everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

Habits form a second nature.

Americans have no past, while Europeans are loaded down by ancient customs, habits, and prejudices that shape their behaviour.

the institution of afternoon tea is suffering in an England that grows more American every day,

Traditions are just peer pressure from dead people.

May I assume that everything about a traditional wedding is repugnant and off-putting to you?" "That's correct.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead, something to which lip service is paid in the vain hope of edifying the kids.

Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.

I'm old school. We're from a small town in Georgia, and I think if we do pictures before the wedding, I think I'm gonna be blindfolded.

I think weddings are ridiculous.

I come from a culture where we wear white for weddings. In India, it's different. But I really feel that there should be no set notions, and a bride should only wear something when she's comfortable in it.

I love the way Indian weddings are hosted. We have kept everything traditional - except our engagement ceremony.

Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything... Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.

Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.

It is an open secret that customs officers pay millions in bribes to secure the lucrative posting in the airport, cargo terminals or ports.