Quotes About Custom

Tradition, my boy, and superstition. They are one and the same, anyway.

Pero los humanos somos animales de costumbres. Tendemos a caminar por los surcos que nos vamos labrando.

Los humanos somos animales de costumbres. Tendemos a caminar por los surcos que nos vamos labrando.

An attraction for him was the natives' habit of gathering after work, a custom that helped keep them warm and cheerful as they danced away what Johnny fetchingly called the "long white evenings.

He will embrace a pure system, from its abstract truth, its beauty, its simplicity, and its promise of wide-extended benefit; unless custom has turned poison into food, he will hate the brutal pleasures of the chase by instinct; it will be a contemplation full of horror and disappointment to his mind, that beings capable of the gentlest and most admirable sympathies should take delight in the death-pangs and last convulsions of dying animals.

Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.

Why do they both refer to your deity while mating?" Tochee inquired as it munched on some rehydrated cabbage. "Is it a request for a blessing?

Heels up, of course, for good luck.

Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel

Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.

or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling

David did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, “Otherwise they will report us, saying, ëThis is what David did.í” And this was Davidís custom the whole time he lived in Philistine territory.

And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord GOD, You have also spoken about the future of the house of Your servant. Is this Your custom with man, O Lord GOD?

And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.

So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.

And she looked out and saw the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom. The officers and trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason! Treason!”

So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.

the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.

“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”

Now it was the governorís custom at the feast to release to the crowd a prisoner of their choosing.

Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.

Then Jesus left that place and went into the region of Judea, beyond the Jordan. Again the crowds came to Him and He taught them, as was His custom.

Now it was Pilateís custom at the feast to release to the people a prisoner of their choosing.