Quotes About Custom

necessity had no respect for law. Even custom must bow to it at times.

Clan custom and law held that it was the public declaration of intent and then living together that made a handfasting; the ceremonies simply bore witness to it and asked blessings and luck of the Powers on the new family. He knew Christians thought that the ceremony was the marriage, though.

And - as is perhaps the universal custom of aristocratically bred persons - they reacted to the news of their ruin by resolving to throw a party.

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport."

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. He gains no practice either in discerning or in desiring what is best. The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only by being used. The faculties are called into no exercise by doing a thing merely because others do it, no more than by believing a thing only because others believe it.

For women who wanted a child, mistletoe was to be strung over their beds. If that had no effect, they must tie nine knots in a strong rope, then burn the rope and eat the ashes and soon enough they would conceive.

I think of the meaning of the word testimony. Originally it named the custom of two men holding each other's testicles in a gesture of trust, later to metamorphose into the handshake.

HABIT, n. A shackle for the free.

in the battle between anxiety and social custom, social custom almost always won.

Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,Daughter of Elysium!Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancingGoddess, to thy shrine we come.Thy sweet magic brings togetherWhat stern Custom spreads afar;All men become brothersWhere thy happy wing-beats are.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

Life is but a collection of habits.

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

Something old, something new,Something borrowed, something blue,And a lucky sixpence in her shoe.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

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