Quotes About Custom

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions.

Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.

In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.

We read that Adam and Methuselah lived so many centuries; at that time, it was the custom to marry in the family - marry as closely as possible - so that the tie of blood might be as strong as it could be made.

Habit is a great deadener.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.

So it is with most of us: that which we observe to be taken as a matter of course by those around us, we take as a matter of course ourselves.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

New Year's Day: Eat lentils to bring riches.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories, and charitable in spirit.

When a peasant has a baby girl, the family puts up a vegetable every year and gives the jars to her when she's married. This

In Welsh tradition, a plate was put on the coffin with bread and salt, and a local professional sin eater arrived to eat the salt.

In some parts of Sweden it was "a dream porridge," in others a pancake, that was made in silence and heavily salted. The custom was that the girl would eat this salty food and then go to sleep without drinking anything. As she slept, her future husband would come to her in a dream and give her water to quench her thirst. No data are available on the success rate of Swedish girls using this system to find a mate.

Humans are the only mammals that consume milk past weaning, apparently in defiance of a basic rule of nature.

He was almost inclined to think that marriage was an old-fashioned custom, fitted indeed well enough for the usual dull life of the world at large, — as many men both in heathen and in Christian ages have taught themselves to think of religion, — but which was not adapted to his advanced intelligence.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Ordinary people do this either at random or through practice and from acquired habit.