Quotes About Custom

Mythology is usually inseparable from ritual.

The Kikuyu, when left to themselves, do not bury their dead, but leave them above ground for the hyenas and vultures to deal with. The custom had always appealed to me, I thought that it would be pleasant thing to be laid out to the sun and the stars, and to be so promptly, neatly, and openly picked and cleansed; to be made one with Nature and become a common component of a landscape.

refused to bless a house with a cat in it.

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.

Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.

It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.