Quotes About Custom

There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.

Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat.

I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

Was that suit made to order? Where were you at the time?

In love afairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.

I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities?

One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?

Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice.

I tell you I always tip. It's a matter of principle with me. I'm like Hemingway. I always do it second-nature.

Ritual isn't a New World strong point.

As the common people say, Only harlots marry in May.

Now for good luck, cast an old shoe after me.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

After all, I'd never met anyone who would just start praying over a glass of iced tea.

Hadrian finds a man scratching his back against a post in the public baths and donates a slave to perform the duty for him, and money to keep him; on his next visit the emperor finds a whole group of old men hopefully rubbing their backs on posts, and confounds them by genially suggesting that they scratch each other.

don't you make pancakes?" It was a family custom to have pancakes

Then one day he returned from school to learn he was going to be married. He was thirteen—certainly not too young for the prearranged marital match that was considered essential to a Hindu household. His bride Kasturbai Makanji, also thirteen, was the daughter of a merchant who lived only a few doors down from the Gandhis' old house in Porbandar.

Men are guided instead by custom, and the personal authority

love of independence and property, the most steady and industrious of all human appetites." Commercial society supplies that "love of independence" in abundance. It encourages men to overturn custom and tradition, and establish a new kind of law, based on a free circulation of goods and services.

It wasn't until later, for instance, that i learned that scalping was an old European custom.

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.