Customs Quotes
I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
Customs is punishment for those who travel. This will teach you for traveling to our country!
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.
It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year
The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.
The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.
When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.
Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.
Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.
The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.
Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.
Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.
So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
Canada and America are very, very different. It's true that we share a language and many customs. But Americans have a very different view of the world.
Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.
