Quotes About Custom

They don't actually believe in anything, you understand, so much as they have the habit of believing.

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!

Me gusta esta costumbre de la rúbrica por lo inútil

The two of them shook hands the regular way. The old-school way.

For girls, war meant having the upper halves of one or more fingers chopped off each time a close relative was killed, to satisfy the dead person's ghost.

She was opening the window as high as the sash would go – that's one of their superstitions, something to do with letting the spirit go freely. They do it.

sexual access to the woman is formalized through a public ceremony

habit is the most inhibiting force in the world.

Imagination is not entirely untrammelled and free to move at will without any rules to constrain it. In fact, the contrary is true. Imagination travels according to habit. Imagination has choice, but it chooses according to habit. Awake or asleep, man's imagination is constrained to follow certain definite patterns. It is this benumbing influence of habit that man must change; if he does not, his dreams will fade under the paralysis of custom.

Fox, in many ways ours is a degrading job-of-work. Custom makes monsters of us all. Do you ever feel like that about it, Fox? No, I don't think you do. You are too nice-minded.

Wie eine Tradition aufrecht erhalten? Indem man nicht von ihr spricht.

When nature called, the men would relieve themselves in a pot at the sideboard without interrupting their conversation, an English custom instituted not so much for convenience as to preempt any excuse for the weak of stomach or head to sneak out before the drinking was finished.

Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

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Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments—the ones abolishing slavery and guaranteeing citizenship rights—still exist, but they've been so weakened by custom, by Congress and the various state legislatures, and by recent Supreme Court decisions that they don't much matter.

Only a habit can subdue another habit.

The idea that everyone should have a house of his own is based on an ancient custom of the Japanese race, Shinto superstition ordaining that every dwelling should be evacuated on the death of its chief occupant.

In her family they used to say that you always had to sit for a minute before heading off on any kind of trip—an old provincial Polish habit—

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.

Caste pride is behind this centuries-old custom. The deep chasm that divides the society is made even deeper by this custom, a conspiracy to trap us in the whirlpool of inferiority.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect -- simply a confession of failures.

Nothing is stronger than habit.