Customs Quotes

The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

Custom alone regulates morals.

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch The Wire. Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things. [Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.]

Custom does often reason overrule.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

Habit had made the custom.

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.

Believers may come from different cultures, countries, or customs, but we serve one God who unites us all.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.

One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs.

The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Custom makes monsters of us all.

Custom is almost a second nature.

It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents and decoration of homes with greenery at midwinter.

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.