CUSTOM QUOTES IV

quotations about custom

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


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

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

Individuality


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

JOANNA BAILLIE

Basil


Cast away the bondage and the fear of rotten custom.

HARTLEY COLERIDGE

Sonnets


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

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Atreides


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

JOHN RAY

English Proverbs


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

JOHN RAY

English Proverbs


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


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

C. J. DALLAS

Butt v. Conant, 1828


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


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

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

The Complete Essays


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


The deadliest foe to love is custom.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Devereux


Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry V


Custom is a violent and deceiving school-mistress.

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Essays


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

JOSEPH W. KRUTCH

The Modern Temper


Custom governs the world: it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners, and rules with a hand of a despot.

J. BARTLETT

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

WALTER BAGEHOT

Physics and Politics


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