Quotes About Custom

One thing you learn very rapidly in this business is that you are part of a continuing tradition.

Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups.

All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment.

I haven't been hunting for years. It is just a tradition I grew up with.

Tradition in fashion is held with such a high regard.

My father is Portuguese, and in Portugal, it is traditional to take your mother's maiden name as a middle name. My mum is called Tough.

But woe is thee, thou torrent of human custom! Who shall stand against thee?

For tradition also and always means inhibition.

traditie betekent ook altijd een remmende factor.

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

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Orchestration really is, Sarah: a habit. A way of doing something habitually.

It's only in India that you can have six couples going together on a honeymoon. I don't think it happens anywhere else in the world.

Growing up in the Sixties, whether it was the Batmobile or the costumes Porter Wagoner wore or the music that came from there, California was the home of what a friend of mine calls 'custom culture.' It seemed like the promised land.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing.

Nobody deserves to go to the World Series more than the Chicago Cubs. But they can't go because that would spoil their custom of never going. It is an irreconcilable paradox.

Did you know—this is a little-known fact but absolute truth—that when they dedicate a new multistory car park, the Lord Mayor and his wife have a ceremonial pee in the stairwell? It's true.

If one's husband had been married before and widowed—a fairly common condition—and a close relative of his first wife's died, the second wife was expected to engage in "complementary mourning"—a kind of proxy mourning on behalf of the deceased earlier partner.

this is a little-known fact but absolute truth—that when they dedicate a new multistory car park, the Lord Mayor and his wife have a ceremonial pee in the stairwell? It's true.

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

Merely according to reason, nothing is just in itself, everything shifts with time. Custom is the whole of equity for the sole reason that it is accepted.