Quotes About Custom

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

Australasian's custom of speaking of England as home. It was always pretty to hear it, and often it was said in an unconsciously caressing way that made it touching; in a way which transmuted a sentiment into an embodiment, and made one seem to see Australasia as a young girl stroking mother England's old gray head.

When did the r disappear from Southern speech, and how did it come to disappear? The custom of dropping it was not borrowed from the North, nor inherited from England.

Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any sort of reflection, and very properly mistrust their own discernment. At the same time this remarkably strong imitative instinct

Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any sort of reflection, and very properly mistrust their own discernment. At the same time this remarkably strong imitative instinct in man is a proof of his kinship with apes.

Humans are animals of habit.

Olives are the wishbones of the cocktail world; rarely are they freely passed along to somebody else.

What about traditional Chinese and Sudanese ghost or spirit marriages, in which one of the partners is actually dead? In these societies a youth might be given in marriage to the dead son or daughter of another family, in order to forge closer ties between the two sets of relatives.

The custom is so ancient that no one takes offence. In Zanzibar the secondary wives had a system of sub-distinctions. The handsome and expensive Circassians, fully conscious of their superior merits and value, refused to sit at table with the brown Abyssinian women. Thus each race, in accordance with a tacit understanding, kept to itself when eating.

Flo hated how public an event affection inevitably became. Marrying in a church while scrutinized by dozens of people struck her as a barbaric custom.

And then they frequently placed the skulls in a prominent place, such as in the living room of their house.

corporal discipline was de rigueur

According to tradition, they are named for the first thing their mother sees when they are born, although to my mind that would lead to a lot of kits being called Roof of Cave or Wall of Cave or Floor of Cave.

We create our own pattern of eating, as distinctive as a signature.

In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics.

If you could custom build new cinemas for every release of every movie, I think filmmakers would work in a lot of different aspect ratios.

He will not stoop to the mediaeval superstition of 'Good-bye'.

You never wear red to no funeral; red says the dead person was a fool.

Religion is just a long competition to see who can design the silliest hat.

With all those stars in the sky, why isn't there enough light for us to see by? We stumble like blinded sheep.' 'As you can see, it is clouding over. The stars can't pierce the gloom; they just wait it out. That isn't the stars fault. It is their custom to stay heavenly.

You came back to me because I was a habit.