Quotes About Custom

I believe in rituals.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

I like comfortable clothes, so I get most of my pants and shirts made.

However when a given act becomes instituted in the culture to the exclusion of other acts we are then dealing with a hegemonic custom — i.e. such is the relationship custom of elevating women to the position of men's social, moral or spiritual superiors.

Old habits die hard.

We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.

When someone comes to visit me, they have to bring tea - you can't stay in my house if you don't bring me tea.

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

Beef is not allowed in my house.

frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom themselves to me.

I know of an uncouth region whose librarians repudiate the vain and superstitious custom of finding a meaning in books and equate it with that of finding a meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's palm

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

No se puede negar que la naturaleza no tenga en nosotros gran influencia como para llevarnos donde quiere y hacernos bien o mal nacidos; pero hay que confesar que tiene sobre nosotros menor poder que la costumbre, porque lo natural, por bueno que sea, se pierde si no es cuidado, y la educación nos hace siempre a su manera, como ésta sea, a pesar de la naturaleza" Página 26, Discurso sobre la servidumbre voluntaria

And this, they say, is how thirteen became the "baker's dozen"—a custom common for over a century, and alive in some places to this day.

Circumcision, like excision indeed, is more a practice of Muslims than a practice of Islam.

Circumcision is a great deal more than a matter of hygiene, or of mere custom. It is deeply rooted in Islamic mores and certainly corresponds to something fundamental.

In the small village I'm from we had a very old custom. On a child's first day of school, the rabbi would give him a slate on which the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet were written in honey. The rabbi asked the child to lick up the letters and go on to use the slate to learn to read and write. The child would always remember that learning was sweet like honey.

Common sense is rarely common practice.

Our habits of thought are stronger than strait-waistcoats. We walk about with habit-coloured spectacles before our eyes, and see everything as we are accustomed to see it.' He

Every man has a pattern - I don't care what they say. They don't like to admit it, but they do.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

Custom is the lord of everything, of mortals and immortals king. High violence it justifies, with hand uplifted plundering.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Abstain from beans.