Custom Quotes

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.

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

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

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

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.

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.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

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.

Custom is second nature.

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.

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

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

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.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

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

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

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