Quotes About Custom

It is our custom to close the day with a reading from the Bible. Often when we have indeed seemed heavy-laden, we have found in its words new life and courage. Here on our lonely prairie we have felt a sense of nearness to Him who 'giveth power to the faint,' and have realized anew that 'to them that hath no might He increaseth strength.' However it may be for others, I feel that no homesteaders equipment would be complete without this book of books.

Make yourself sleep? Oh, don't think of it that way." Reed let her pass him. "It's an indulgence, not a duty. 'Nature requires five, custom gives seven, laziness takes nine, and wickedness eleven.' Try to be wicked.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Each of the conquered kingdoms had its own laws and traditions. King Aegon did little to interfere with those. He allowed his lords to continue to rule much as they always had, with all the same powers and prerogatives. The laws of inheritance and succession remained unchanged, the existing feudal structures were confirmed, lords both great and small retained the power of pit and gallows on their own land, and the privilege of the first night wherever that custom had formerly prevailed.

Habit is stronger than reason

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

Errors sanctified by long usage are not easily relinquished.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

A woman who is found without her veil in some regions of Islam will, it is reported, raise her skirt to cover her face.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Nothing is more powerful than habit.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

But old habits die hard.

Eating is a ritual, and rituals make things easier.

Things that people are doing constantly but aren't thinking about. That's the ultimate 'Portlandia' concept.

I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.

How happy a thing were a wedding, And a bedding, If a man might purchase a wife For a twelvemonth and a day

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow The same tame slaves to custom and the world.

As for her own share in the matter, she felt no shame at all. It had pleased Satan to come to her aid. Considering carefully, she did not see who else would have done so. Custom, public opinion, law, church, and state - all would have shaken their massive heads against her plea, and sent her back to bondage.

Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old; it is custom which hinders the husband from perceiving the change.