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Custom is second nature.
— Saint Augustine
Laws are subordinate to custom.
— Plautus
An ancient custom obtains force of nature.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
— Michel De Montaigne
Custom determines what is agreeable.
— Blaise Pascal
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.
— Michel De Montaigne
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
— Michel De Montaigne
The spectacle of people following current custom for lack of will or imagination to do anything else is hardly a new failing.
— William H. Whyte
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
— George Bernard Shaw
Jonkonnu if you want to. That was a custom that got started
— Sue Monk Kidd
The empire of custom is most mighty.
— Publilius Syrus
Custom doth make dotards of us all.
— Thomas Carlyle
Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom
— Edward Sapir
The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
— Djuna Barnes
Save Time, Money and Space Through Right Custom Furniture Makers
— Furniture & Cabinetaking Magazine
I'm not big on material things, but I like my cars. They are German-made and custom-made.
— Dirk Nowitzki
The custom of going to a party only when we have been invited is a necessary, attractive, decent way for a party to evolve.
— Letitia Baldrige
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
— William Hazlitt
When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.
— Marilyn Ferguson
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.
— Francis Bacon
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
— John Stuart Mill
The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.
— Thomas Aquinas
It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time ... when I knew words would be my life's work
— Margaret Edson
Forming culture is not a one-time event.
— Matt Chandler
One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?
— Tom Hodgkinson
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? custom is despot of mankind.
— Alexander Pushkin
Custom does often reason overrule.
— John Wilmot
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
By universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.
— James Clavell
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
— Alexandre Dumas
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
— Mark Twain
Custom makes monsters of us all.
— Ngaio Marsh
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Shaving was invented to kill time before a date.
— M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
St. John had a book in his hand - it was his unsocial custom to read at meals - he closed it and looked up.
— Charlotte Bronte
According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
— Edward Gibbon
Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
— Henry David Thoreau
The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.
— Jason Wu
There were questions one asked, and questions one did not. That was strong custom. And friendship.
— Robert Jordan
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.
— Isaac Asimov
We are the number one custom yacht builder in the world and my goal is to stay there
— Felix Sabates
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
— Cecil B. DeMille
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
— Moliere
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.
— Michel De Montaigne
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
— Pythagoras
I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.
— Gordon Lish
In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.
— Jodi Picoult
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
— Jean De La Bruyere
My custom has always been to ponder grief; that is, to follow it through ventricle and aorta to find its lurking places.
— Marilynne Robinson
Custom is the law of fools.
— John Vanbrugh
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
— Bill Vaughan
Life doesn't depend on any one opinion, any one custom, or any one century.
— Baltasar Gracian
Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain.
— Jack London
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
— Miguel De Cervantes
women were beginning to see that custom, religious precept, and law were in fact man-made and therefore reversible.
— Adam M. Grant
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
— Tacitus
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
— Francis Bacon
Sati was a custom religiously followed by a few, toed halfheartedly by rather more, sidestepped by many and ignored by most
— Tim Mackintosh-Smith
There is very little 'of course' when it comes to custom
— Janet Kagan
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
— Ben Jonson
Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.
— Brand Blanshard
The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
— Michel De Montaigne
Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure would seem to have been almost custom-designed for the case of tattoos.
— David Foster Wallace
Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
