Quotes About Custom

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Indeed, the Royal Family still retain the German custom - introduced by Prince Albert - of opening their presents on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas morning.

Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance.

I shake hands on the first date.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

You'd be surprised how much easier it is to conduct business over tea than over lunch or dinner in a bustling restaurant.

There were questions one asked, and questions one did not. That was strong custom. And friendship.

Almost ten years past now that Edeyn had watched him ride away from Fal Moran, and been gone when he returned, yet he still could recall her face more clearly than that of any woman who had shared his bed since. He was no longer a boy, to think that she loved him just because she had chosen to become his first lover, yet there was an old saying among Malkieri men. Your carneira wears part of your soul as a ribbon in her hair forever. Custom strong as law made it so.

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.

Edward Tylor, a distinguished nineteenth-century cultural anthropologist. For him culture is "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man [sic] as a member of society.

What is perceptible to one's mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of it, the pre-formations passed down by generation after generation, the ready-made language not only of the tongue but also of the sensations and the feelings.

I go living, more from force of habit than anything else.

that Rosemary is to wear white silk and a veil, but Ellen is to be married in navy blue. I have no doubt, Mrs. Dr. dear, that that is very sensible of her

I don't think it's any help that it's your habit. What would you think of a person who went about sticking pins and needles into people and saying, `Excuse me, you mustn't mind it. . .it's just a habit I've got.' You'd think he was crazy, wouldn't you?

Legend reports that Gloriana did not even take kindly to that most dangerous of mechanical devices, the flush toilet, and though she thanked its inventor, she preferred more tried-and-true methods of sanitation.

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether. These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion.

A tradition is a living argument. A living argument for a practice that began a long time ago.

Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.

Era una costumbre que te pertenecía, un detalle curioso, una anécdota que te caracterizaba. Sí. Junto a tu nombre se alzaba a modo de una pequeña leyenda tu afición por el té. Ni el vino, ni la cerveza, ni siquiera el pisco. Pero el té no consiguió disminuirte o ridiculizarte, sencillamente se inscribió como un hábito si no respetable, posible, una costumbre que todos aceptaban y que no obstaculizaba.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from custom is the unwritten law.

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.