Quotes About Custom

But what is nature? For is custom not natural? I am much afraid that nature is itself only a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

Manuel Flores va a morir,/ eso es moneda corriente;/ morir es una costumbre/ que sabe tener la gente.

Por qué miran con tanto desdén? —preguntó Chloé—. Al fin y al cabo, trabajar no es para tanto. —Se les ha inculcado la idea de que trabajar es algo bueno —dijo Colin—. En general, se considera así. Pero, de hecho, no hay nadie que lo piense. Se hace por costumbre y para no pensar en ello precisamente.

You English have a saying which is close to my heart, for its spirit is that which rules our boyars: Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

It [tradition] cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.

It is the custom for a master to do this for the student, but not the other way around, Yadeen said when he handed a package to Arram. It is assumed the student needs every nit he can find, if not for now, when he has a stipend, then later, when he is on his own.

Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite.

In the Macomb household, cocktail hour was religion.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Every year during Dhanteras, we buy jewellery either for me or my mom, from our jeweller. It's been a ritual which we have been following for years.

Since the Middle Ages, pieces of toasted bread have been added to beer and wine to improve the beverages' flavor. It is from that practice that we get the expression "to drink a toast." In Shakespeare's day there was also another saying, "not worth a toast," meaning not worth a crust of bread.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Custom without truth is error grown old." —Tertullian, third-century theologian

But merely being tradition does not make something worthy.

Oh!" Pattern said suddenly, bursting up from the bowl to hover in the air. "You were talking about mating! I'm to make sure you don't accidentally mate, as mating is forbidden by human society until you have first performed appropriate rituals! Yes, yes. Mmmm. Dictates of custom require following certain patterns before you copulate. I've been studying this!

Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.

When I ask for a garment of a particular form, my tailoress tells me gravely, "They do not make them so now," not emphasizing the "They" at all, as if she quoted an authority as impersonal as the Fates

for the philosophy of Square rendered him superior to all emotions, and he very calmly smoaked his pipe, as was his custom in all broils, unless when he apprehended some danger of having it broke in his mouth.

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

Art indeed in our day has taken on so many honors and emoluments that the recognition of its importance is more than a custom, has become on occasion almost a fury: the line is drawn--especially in the English world--only in the importance of heeding what it may mean.

How do you get on with your father ' Beleth asked. 'Very well ' Pyrgus answered loyally although it was far from the truth. 'I ate mine ' Beleth told him. 'He got old and feeble and useless but he wanted to hold on to power. So I took steps. Tasted disgusting - stringy tough smelly ... you know how fathers are - but it's the custom here. You're supposed to absorb the essence that way. Rank superstition of course but well ... tradition.

Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer

When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?