Quotes About Custom

valuing human experience, tradition, and custom.

people of tradition, faith, and custom do not reject science or reason, but they do not worship them, either. They have learned and experienced the value of eternal truths and past wisdom, including from the ancients, which reflects the basis of America's founding, as concisely set forth in the Declaration of Independence.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

Seriously, why was it tradition to stand when the bride came in? It blocked her from seeing her groom, who was the only reason she was there in the first place.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety, other women cloy.

Habit is a form of exercise.

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

In fact, a marriage was normally contracted, as the Romans put it, 'by practice': that is, in our terms, 'by cohabitation'. If you lived together for a year, you were married. It

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Love is a product of habit

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree

The most dangerous food is wedding cake

Duty . That was a word I hated as much as tradition .

A long, scandalous kiss. I felt the colour rush through my cheeks. If this was the custom, I liked it.

and so we persist in using suboptimized measurements out of superstition and habit.

It makes no difference what you wear, really. I'll put you in a dark grey. I believe I have some left over from a funeral." says the dressmaker.