quotations about custom
We have brought in the yoke of custom to improve the world, and in the world the custom sticks.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Physics and Politics
Custom is the sovereign of mortals and of gods: with its powerful hand it regulates things the most violent.
PINDARUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Custom is another law.
LATIN PROVERB
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
So many countries, so many customs.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
Custom alone regulates morals.
ANATOLE FRANCE
The Revolt of the Angels
There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom.
ELIZABETH GOUGE
The Dean's Watch
What humanity abhors, custome reconciles and recommends to us.
JOHN LOCKE
On Education
'Tis nothing when you are used to it.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Polite Conversation
Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
speech in the House of Commons, March 11, 1870
Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.
CYPRIAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily.
EVAN ESAR
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