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In all of his bestsellers, the Divine has told the truth,
custom-tailored to the comprehension of the times.
- Ernest Holmes
Related topics: Spiritual
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
- Charles Davenport
If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom,
you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement,
do something that everybody will notice.
- Lewis Tappan
The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining,
and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom
of public assemblies on Sunday.
- Felix Adler
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it,
the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
- John Owen
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People usually think according to their inclinations,
speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions,
but generally act according to custom.
- Francis Bacon
I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs...
like custom officers.
- Jack Dee
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail
are suitable to the occasion.
It arises from circumstance, custom,
and nature.
- Marcus V. Pollio
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that
to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice,
and that justice is equality.
- Plato
That a majority of women do not wish for any important
change in their social and civil condition,
merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
- Lydia M. Child
Truth always originates in a minority of one,
and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
- Will Durant
Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily,
some twice a week, some on the Lord's day,
Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.
- Martin Chemnitz
Custom is second nature.
- Saint Aurelius Augustine
I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
- Adam Jones
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing
hindrance to human advancement.
- John Stuart Mill
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
- Ovid
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal,
according to their ancient custom.
- William Congreve
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor
of whatever is countenanced by antiquity,
enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
- Robert Hall
Custom is the great guide to human life.
- David Hume
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall
be protected in doing what he believes is his duty
against the influence of authority and majorities,
custom and opinion.
- John Acton
Custom, that is before all law; Nature,
that is above all art.
- Samuel Daniel
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the
basis of civil and international law,
or at least of custom that has the force of law.
- Alfred Marshall
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice,
and imitation and custom rear it up.
- Mary Astell
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition,
and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather,
altogether incalculable.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
- Samuel Butler
Custom is our nature.
What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
- Blaise Pascal
Custom reconciles us to everything.
- Edmund Burke
The way of the world is to make laws,
but follow custom.
- Michel de Montaigne
It is not reason which is the guide of life,
but custom.
- David Hume
Laws are subordinate to custom.
- Titus Maccius Plautus
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday,
but in Milan I do not.
Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend,
if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
- Saint Ambrose
Without the aid of prejudice and custom,
I should not be able to find my way across the room.
- William Hazlitt
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom;
for no man easily distrusts the things which he and
all men have been always bred up to.
- William Temple
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
- Tacitus
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own,
and custom is no argument with them.
- Thomas Hardy
Admitting the force of these contentions,
nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public
assembly for the consideration of the most serious,
the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
- Felix Adler
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained,
and every principle of philosophy and common sense
demand that the explanation be sought,
not in arbitrary allegorical categories,
but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom
to which the myth attaches.
- William Robertson Smith
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions,
and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable;
and to make this custom the more significant,
practice it first upon yourself.
- Marcus Aurelius
This means that they are bound by law and custom to
plough the fields of their masters,
harvest the corn, gather it into barns,
and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay,
cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.
- Jean Froissart
To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun,
going through the process that everybody who has bought
one has gone through for 100 years.
You order it, you make a significant down payment,
and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.
- Tom Selleck
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man;
therefore mind it while you learn it,
that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous,
though in a ridiculous act.
- Lord Chesterfield
It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily
serve with the help of God,
to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some,
following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
- Pope Gregory VII
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then
proceed to live off men and destroy them,
completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon
or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.
- Richard Harris
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural
history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point,
and to consider their structure and organization as
specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
- Alfred Russel Wallace
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy.
The moralist cannot teach what is revealed;
he must reveal what can be taught.
He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
- Walter Lippmann
Laws are sand, customs are rock.
Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped,
but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
The penalty may be unfair, unrighteous, illogical, and a cruelty;
no matter, it will be inflicted, just the same.
Certainly, then, there can be but one wise thing
for a visiting stranger to do -
find out what the country's customs are,
and refrain from offending against them.
- Mark Twain
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart
of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
- Albert Camus
Customs do not concern themselves
with right or wrong or reason.
But they have to be obeyed;
one reasons all around them until he is tired,
but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
- Mark Twain
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of
the existing customs of the Roman people.
- Henry James Sumner Maine
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough,
some of which go and others come.
- Dante Alighieri
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes.
He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and
institutions and ways of thinking.
- Ruth Benedict
I don't like people who take drugs...
Customs men for example.
- Mick Miller
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals,
our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
- Aaron Hill
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs,
doctrines - these are of trifling import.
All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
- Henry Miller
I have never smuggled anything in my life.
Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
- John Steinbeck
We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border
patrol to a foreign government.
We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States,
either.
- Robert Menendez
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose,
after examination, the best customs in the world,
each nation would certainly select its own.
- Herodotus
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know,
or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended
by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
- John Updike
Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively
defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol,
with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard,
with the Armed Forces.
- Barry McCaffrey
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose
language and customs they adopt.
- Emma Lazarus
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world,
considering us as a civilized and a Christian country,
that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
- Daniel Defoe
If you reject the food, ignore the customs,
fear the religion and avoid the people,
you might better stay at home.
- James A. Michener
And we had our own laws.
I mean, I wrote them.
And we had our own customs, and traditions,
and proprieties.
- James Stockdale
I think it is important also to recognize that our
Customs border protection officers who secure our borders
and conduct inspections of people in vehicles and cargo
are also facing staffing shortages.
- Kendrick Meek
Yes, we are all different.
Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms,
different languages, but not so different that we cannot
get along with one another.
If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
- J. Martin Kohe
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky;
which is a number of small stars,
not seen asunder, but giving light together:
so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues,
or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
- Francis Bacon
Last year, customs officials screened only five percent
of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States.
That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our
national and economic interests.
- Allyson Schwartz
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