Quotes About Custom

If, therefore, a nation is able to gain the benefit of custom without the evil—if after ages of waiting it can have order and choice together—at once the fatal clog is removed, and the ordinary springs of progress, as in a modern community we conceive them, begin their elastic action.

But a government by discussion, if it can be borne, at once breaks down the yoke of fixed custom.

It is only the thinnest surface layer of law and custom, belief and sentiment, which can either be successfully subjected to destructive treatment, or become the nucleus of any new growth—a fact which explains the apparent paradox that so many of our most famous advances in political wisdom are nothing more than the formal recognition of our political impotence.

The constant pressure of custom; the effects of imitation, of education, and of habit; the incalculable influence of man on man, produce a working uniformity of conviction more effectually than the gallows and the stake, though without the cruelty, and with far more than the wisdom that have usually been vouchsafed to official persecutors.

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

Rituals help us change modes.

If you cut off the pointed end of a slice of pie and save it for last, you can make a wish when you eat it.

What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?

It was a common custom at that time, in the more romantic females, to see their soldier husbands and sweethearts as Greek heroes, instead of the whoremongering, drunken clowns most of them were. However, the Greek heroes were probably no better, so it was not so far off the mark.

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

It was a common custom for men to put themselves, their wives or their children up as a bond to guarantee payment of loans

la cérémonie des livrées.

In most of the world, breakfast is an important meal.

Habit is ten times nature.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.

I didn't realize people tip for take-out.

I hate it in America where the protocol seems to be you are expected to tip regardless of the quality of service. I like to tip when it's not being demanded of me, and if the service has been good, I tip quite generously.

Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon. She entranced Emperor Li Yu by dancing on her toes inside a six-foot golden lotus festooned with ribbons and precious stones.

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

Perhaps, beguiled by custom and order, one's sense of evil goes numb.

The tradition was that with each kiss a berry was picked off the mistletoe. Once the last berry was gone, then there could be no more kissing," Chris revealed as he leaned closer before whispering, "And that's a total shame.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.