Quotes About Custom

Hath not old custom made this life more sweetThan that of painted pomp? Are not these woodsMore free from peril than the envious court?

We must not make a scarecrow of the law,Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,And let it keep one shape, till custom make itTheir perch and not their terror.

Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

In America, as Mark Twain observed, nothing is older than our habit of calling everything new.

Ninety-nine (students) out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

Apollo said that everyone's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

His report described a typical beka initiation, complete with slaughtered sheep and chickens, the neck of a tortoise (because it resembles a penis), and "virgin lasses" in attendance through a long prelude that culminates at four in the morning.

Frisco"—a violation of local custom that, as Herb Caen had impatiently explained for many years, was committed only by clueless rubes.

It is believed that during the coronation of a new Pharaoh, he would be required to masturbate in front of the crowd, to demonstrate that he himself possessed the fertility powers of Min. If you have watched a State of the Union address, you will find that the ritual has not changed much.

when you look at the world, you put on the goggles of custom, habit and tribal wisdom lest the truth make you insane [...] you see the world reflected in your own image; you see yourself reflected to the image of the world [...]

What they could use and carry from a shipwreck, the Sahrawis took. What they could not take, it was their custom to burn. To the victims who witnessed this destruction of their personal articles and the cargo of their vessel, it was often the last cruel blow before they assumed the life of a slave to some of the poorest people on earth, living in some of the harshest conditions imaginable.

Billie has not yet heard of Savile Row. It will be many months later that she learns about custom clothing and realizes that he has been her introduction to proper tailoring.

The most insane things can become normal if you have them around you long enough. A mind can't seem to hold anything too crazy for too long without finding a way to make it seem normal.

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Querer es una costumbre

Se la echaría en falta, por costumbre más que por aflicción

Tradi?ia nu este numai amintire, ea este ?i obi?nuin?? ?i repetare, la urma urmelor a rutinei. De aceea, este o for?? ?i, în acela?i timp, o sl?biciune.

The custom of eating the lover after consummination of the nuptials, of making a meal of the exhausted pigmy, who is henceforth good for nothing, is not so difficult to understand, since insects can hardly be accused of sentimentality; but to devour him during the act surpasses anything the most morbid mind could imagine. I have seen the thing with my own eyes, and I have not yet recovered from my surprise.

The sequencing of questions must be custom designed for your solutions and it must be navigated in different ways according to the physical reality of each individual customer. All sequenced diagnostic mapsâ"¢ are based on a generic format that I call the Bridge to Change (see Figure 3.2). FIGURE 3.2 Building the Bridge to Change The Bridge to Change is patterned after the tools and methods that physicians use to diagnose complex medical conditions and prescribe appropriate solutions.