Quotes About Custom

This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

To give a tangerine is a Chinese New Year's Tradition. Stems are left on to keep friendship intact.

If an expectant mother stepped over a rope on the ground or under a clothesline, the umbilical cord would tangle during childbirth. Mothers-to-be should

Some people don't believe in God but they color eggs at Easter just to change the pattern of their days.

If you're shopping for a caterer for an upcoming party, for example, you'll be more likely to do business with a company that breaks down their process into three steps:         1.    Tell us about your event.         2.    Let us create a custom menu.         3.    Host the party of your dreams.

Building Your Dream Home: 10 Things to Get Right Before You Build"— A free e-book offered by an architect who wanted to establish herself as a guide to families looking to build a custom home.

Experience tells me that people's hearts are seldom changed if they are not changed when young. Seldom indeed are men converted when they are old. Habits have deep roots. Sin once allowed to nestle in your bosom will not be turned out at your bidding. Custom becomes second nature, and its chains are not easily broken.

dressed in mourning—in white—according to the custom in royal families in those days,

A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

It was not reason but rather custom that was, Hume claimed, 'the guide of life' (T 652).

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

funeral services took place with the casket open, so that the mourners were required to view the deceased while great things were said about him. It was an odd custom, one aimed at making the moment far more dramatic than necessary.

That men, who might have tower'd in the van Of all the congregated world, to fan And winnow from the coming step of time All chaff of custom, wipe away all slime Left by men-slugs and human serpentry, Have been content to let occasion die, Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium.

it's customary in the empire to grant positions of high office to people who know little about their subject; in my case the custom is being maintained to the letter.

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

It's a college rule: we must always take off our hats when see a fellow scholar.' I pulled a face and she continued, burning with conviction, 'Oh, come on, Mr Knight. Don't tell me you've never seen someone doff a cap before.' 'I'm familiar with the custom, but not in this context. The normal way to make a man remove his hat in that town is to punch him on the jaw.

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Custom! that skillful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable.