Customs Quotes

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents.

The empire of custom is most mighty.

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

Preventing people from illegally immigrating to the United States should be the primary purpose of Customs and Border Protection.

Custom doth make dotards of us all.

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold.

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

The breach of custom Is breach of all.

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

Customs, morals--is there a difference?

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

But there are times, " said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.

You gotta look backwards to go forwards.

The past informs the present.

Preserve the spirit of a ‘lost’ age, when time moved slower.

The believer is not a slave to fa

India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country.