CUSTOM QUOTES V

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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