Quotes About Custom

It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to heaven during the day, lifting their minds to God out of the mire of this world.

I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins.

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.

Because he was English and that's what the English do under stress: they drink tea.

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

The house rule was no Christmas tree 'til after Name Day. These were two separate life events, to be celebrated on their own merits.

The upper classes worshipped then, as now, not the Spirit of Spring but their own ancestors.

But for us, sugar is more than just a sweetener: It's a symbol of hospitality, of good luck and happiness.

Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy

Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

pamamanhikan,

Circula una etimología popular que asegura que la etimología de «testigo» (y cualquier derivado como «testamento») proviene de la costumbre que tenían los romanos de apretarse los testículos con la mano cuando juraban decir la verdad.

la costumbre obra milagros y confiere rango de necesidad a lo antojadizo y superfluo.

Man is not only ruled by evil passions; but his rational capacity is severely limited as well. Without the warm cloak of custom, tradition, experience, history, religion, and social hierarchy—all of which radical man would rip off—man is shivering and naked. Free man from all mystery, demystify his institutions and his intellectual world, and you leave him alone in a universe of insignificance, incapacity, and inadequacy.

The night before I left home, there was the wake in our kitchen as was the custom for anyone going so far away. The kitchen was full of people, two men left their flash lamps lit