quotations about custom
Custom is another law.
LATIN PROVERB
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Individuality
Just because you have become accustomed to a thing, does not make it right.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Atreides
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
SINCLAIR LEWIS
Main Street
We have brought in the yoke of custom to improve the world, and in the world the custom sticks.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Physics and Politics
Cast away the bondage and the fear of rotten custom.
HARTLEY COLERIDGE
Sonnets
So they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves according to their custom with swords and lances until the blood gushed out on them.
BIBLE
1 Kings 18:28
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
Custom is a violent and deceiving school-mistress.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Essays
How many unjust and wicked things are sanctioned by custom.
TERENCE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Woe unto you, O torrent of human custom! Who shall stay your course? When will you ever run dry? How long will you carry down the sons of Eve into that vast and hideous ocean.
AUGUSTINE
Confessions
But to my mind, though I am native here,
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
Custom alone regulates morals.
ANATOLE FRANCE
The Revolt of the Angels
Custom is the sovereign of mortals and of gods: with its powerful hand it regulates things the most violent.
PINDARUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Nice customs curtsy to great kings.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry V
The slaves of custom and established mode,
With pack-horse constancy we keep the road
Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
True to the jingling of our leader's bells.
WILLIAM COWPER
The Task
What custom hath endeared
We part with sadly, though we prize it not.
JOANNA BAILLIE
Basil
'Tis nothing when you are used to it.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Polite Conversation
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
JOSEPH W. KRUTCH
The Modern Temper
Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.
JOHN VANBRUGH
The Provoked Husband