Quotes About Custom

The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.

A virgin's silence is the proper answer to a marriage proposal; it signifies a dignified consent.

The easier a behavior is to do, the more likely the behavior will become habit.

Certainly custom is most perfect, when it beginneth in young years: this we call education; which is, in effect, but an early custom.

I commend rather some diet for certain seasons, than frequent use of physic, except it be grown into a custom. For those diets alter the body more, and trouble it less.

We have brought in the yoke of custom to improve the world, and in the world the custom sticks.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

I'm a creature of habit.

I'm creature of habit.

People are incredible creatures of habit.

I'm a man of habit.

It's hard to break a habit.

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

We are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle

Setting boundaries on human behavior is the job of law, custom, and etiquette, not evolutionary psychology.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.

For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit...

A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition.

Observing these people narrowly, even when the iron hand of misfortune has shaken them from their unquestioning hold on the world, one sees little trace of religion, still less of a distinctively Christian creed. Their belief in the unseen, so far as it manifests itself at all, seems to be rather of a pagan kind; their moral notions, though held with strong tenacity, seem to have no standard beyond hereditary custom.

Indeed, she herself was accustomed to think that entire freedom from the necessity of behaving agreeably was included in the Almighty's intentions about families.

By seeking what was needful for Eppie, by sharing the effect that everything produced on her, he had himself come to appropriate the forms of custom and belief which were the mould of Raveloe life; and as, with reawakening sensibilities, memory also reawakened, he had begun to ponder over the elements of his old faith, and blend them with his new impressions, till he recovered a consciousness of unity between his past and present.