Quotes About Custom

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

because an American can have a double-barreled last name but there is little practice for a triple-barreled one.

Drevni Goti u Germaniji [...] - ima?ahu jedan mudar zajedni?ki obi?aj, naime, da o svakoj važnijoj stvari koja se ticala zajednice raspravljaju dvaput; i to - jednom kad su pijani, a drugi put u treznom stanju;- Pijani - da im savetovanje ne bude lišeno snage i odvažnosti;- atrezni - da ne bude lišeno razboritosti i opreznosti.

Searching the Deep Web is technically elegant, but being in it can be unpleasant. It has a bit of everything, but ultimately it's a three-legged stool. A third of it is a vast criminal marketplace, where everything is for sale, from your credit card number to murder. There are auction sites where hit men compete for jobs. Lowest bid wins. There are sites where you can specify how your wife should die, and there are contractors who will give you a custom quote.

Society is not possible if ancestral custom is not regarded as sacred as far as practice is concerned.

Well, now, you see, I have a firm religion that I never drink hot cocoa by myself. It's against my religion. You have a religion? Ling sniffled. Well, no. Not really. But if I did, that would be the first commandment.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

In the visitor's book at Crome Ivor had left, according to his invariable custom in these cases, a poem. He had improvised it magisterially in the ten minutes preceding his departure. Denis and Mr. Scogan strolled back together from the gates of the courtyard, whence they had bidden their last farewells; on the writing-table in the hall they found the visitor's book, open, and Ivor's composition scarcely dry. Mr. Scogan read it aloud:

Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.

Rousseau (I'll note with your permission) Could not conceive how solemn Grimm Dared clean his nails in front of him, The madcap sage and rhetorician. Champion of rights and liberty, In this case judged wrong-headedly. One still can be a man of action And mind the beauty of one's nails: Why fight the age's predilection? Custom's a despot and prevails.

Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city.

Let me tell you something you probably already know. It's that second cord that should remain in the neck of the bottle. You can liberate 1, but two bottles of wine for 2 people is 1 bottle too many. There was a reason the French bottled wine the way they did. 2 and a half glasses was plenty of wine for 2 people to consume with dinner. But that's not how it went with us.

It took longer for the fork to gain acceptance in England because it was thought to be a feminine utensil. Thomas Coryate, an English traveler and philosopher who had been to Italy and France, published a book in 1611 that included the Italian custom of eating with a fork. He declared himself the first man in London to eat with a fork.

The word 'tip' comes from the mid-eighteenth-century innkeepers' sign 'to insure promptness.' Patrons deposited a few coins on the table before ordering a meal or drinks and were served faster.

Greek men developed a rather curious custom. Upon meeting another man, they clasped each other's right lower arms and touched their own testicles with their left hands. This was probably a symbol of honesty.

Re­turning sea captains also brought back exotic produce such as pine­apples. It became a custom to place a pineapple on the front gate or door to alert visitors of the captain's return. From this practice, the pineapple came to be a symbol of hospitality, a tradition that survives today.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

All tradition is merely the past.