Quotes About Custom

Religion was about ritual rather than belief.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality.

White for poison, black for purity," the Lady Fenring said. "A curious custom, isn't it, my love?

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Window treatments are like a nice suit - you want them to fit and the tailoring to be just right.

I have one custom guitar which I play almost exclusively. I have others - sometimes you want a little texture, kind of a different sound or something.

Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.

There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.

Now there are four chief obstacles in grasping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to learning, namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

Vadiação é bom costume.

Proficimus more irretenti: "We make progress unhindered by custom.

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

Maybe too many opinions is an American custom. I think Chinese people don't like to have different opinions at the same time. We believe in one thing, we stick to it for one hundred years, five hundred years. Less confusion that way.

Japanese chase-away juice." And

even wore something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

ACCUSTOMANCE  (ACCU'STOMANCE)   n.s.[accoûtumance, Fr.]Custom, habit, use. Through accustomance and negligence, and perhaps some other causes, we neither feel it in our own bodies, nor take notice of it in others.Boyle'sWorks.

It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom, or that which is established because it is right from that which is right only because it is established

It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

Dear Wilhelm, I have thought a great deal about Man's desire to go out into the world, make new discoveries and go a-wandering, and, on the other hand, about that deep-seated impulse to be contented with limits that are imposed, and gladly to proceed as custom dictates, with no interest in what goes beyond the daily round.

Every tradition forbids the asking of certain questions about what has really happened to you.