Quotes About Custom

Far from ruining the purity of solitary prayer, petition guards and preserves that purity. The solitary, more than anyone else, is always aware of his needs before God. ... His prayer is an expression of his poverty. Petition, for him, can hardly become a mere formality, a concession to human custom, as if he did not need God in everything.

Look at this. A barstool, named Sven? Some old Swedish custom, the winter kicks in, weather gets harsh, after a while you find yourself relating to the furniture in ways you didn't expect?

Le sembrerà stupido, ma è una cosa che dico sempre. É un mio vizio. Insomma, mi dispiace

Still, a custom that has not been strictly outlawedmay always be revived.

Why not defy custom and boldly snatch in that magic moment some satisfactory taste of warm human intercourse ?

Für sich selbst eine Ausnahme zu machen ist natürlich die Regel.

Mezclábamos la sangre fresca con leche y un poco de orina y se la dábamos a beber a los enfermos; así se repusieron y al cabo de dos semanas estaban en condiciones de emprender el camino.

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Then we offer our guest "pot luck," which means that the mistress of the house will take bread out of her children's mouths to give to the visitor, who is obliged to accept it. If you receive a formal invitation, you can expect a gargantuan feast: the goal is to leave the guests moaning with indigestion for several days. Of course, women always do the hard work.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued.

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

Ancient custom has the force of law.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

Custom is second nature, and no less powerful.

Habit is a great deadener.

Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice, it is merely custom.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.

The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.

They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.