CUSTOM QUOTES IV

quotations about custom


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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
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Individuality


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How many unjust and wicked things are sanctioned by custom.

TERENCE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

HENRY FIELDING

The Wedding-Day


My normal isn't your normal, and your normal isn't anyone else's normal. In fact, on this journey called life, normal isn't normal.

TYEISHA BREWER-FIELDS

Normal By Whose Standards?


Custom is another law.

LATIN PROVERB


A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.

JOHN RAY

English Proverbs


What custom hath endeared
We part with sadly, though we prize it not.

JOANNA BAILLIE

Basil


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


Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.

JOHN RAY

English Proverbs


Just because you have become accustomed to a thing, does not make it right.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Atreides


The deadliest foe to love is custom.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Devereux


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


Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

JOSEPH W. KRUTCH

The Modern Temper


For the customs of the peoples are delusion;
Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.
They decorate it with silver and with gold;
They fasten it with nails and with hammers
So that it will not totter.
Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they,
And they cannot speak;
They must be carried,
Because they cannot walk!
Do not fear them,
For they can do no harm,
Nor can they do any good.

BIBLE

Jeremiah 10:3-5


We have brought in the yoke of custom to improve the world, and in the world the custom sticks.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Physics and Politics


I cannot draw a distinction as to what length of time will render a practice legal.

C. J. DALLAS

Butt v. Conant, 1828


Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry V


When a custom is actually proved to exist, the next enquiry is into the legality of it; for if it is not a good custom it ought to be no longer used.

WILLIAM BLACKSTONE

Commentaries on the Laws of England

Tags: William Blackstone


Custom is a violent and deceiving school-mistress.

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Essays


The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

The Complete Essays