Quotes About Custom

Beer is such an integral part of the Indian culture.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.

We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.

Tamaki: A girl should only show skin once she's married, not before!!!

Costume and custom are complex. The headgear of the other sex inspires us to experiment.

When a custom is actually proved to exist, the next enquiry is into the legality of it; for if it is not a good custom it ought to be no longer used.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Why is it that with birthday cakes you can blow on them and spit on them and everyone rushes to get a piece?

living in a onetime kingdom where it was and still is a custom, an obsession, to compact thoughts and images patiently in the heads of the population, thereby bringing them ineffable joy and even greater woe; living among people who will lay down their lives for a bale of compacted thoughts.

But Tad was touchingly tenderhearted. When Jack, the turkey being fattened for Christmas, became his pet, Tad's distress was so great that his father granted the bird a pardon–a custom that continues today.

To a man like Roger Barlow, the whole world just seemed to be a complicated joke … everything was always up for grabs, capable of dispute; and religion, laws, principle, custom – these were nothing but sticks from the wayside to support our faltering steps.

It requires a great genius to flatter successfully a great personage. The common arts of adulation are thrown away upon the exalted. They are so accustomed to these that they take little notice.

People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.

Without his armor, Tyr Tejohn Treygar thought he must have looked like a man disgraced. It was ridiculous, of course; by Festival custom and royal decree, everyone went without armor today, even the guards at the gates.

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

No. Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Tradition is a very powerful force.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.