Custom Quotes V

CUSTOM QUOTES V

quotations about custom

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

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Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash; for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashions to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

The Death of Wallenstein

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'Tis base,
And argues a low spirit, to be taught
By customs, and to let the vulgar grow
To our example.

ROBERT MEAD

The Combat of Love and Friendship

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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

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Custom is the sovereign of mortals and of gods: with its powerful hand it regulates things the most violent.

PINDARUS

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Custom alone regulates morals.

ANATOLE FRANCE

The Revolt of the Angels

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There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom.