Custom Quotes

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually.

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

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

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.