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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

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed. — Mark Twain

At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning. — Hugh Nibley

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain

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

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred. — Franz Kafka

Convention is a jealous god and, like Saturn, eats its babies. — Marty Rubin

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest — Michel De Montaigne

Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily. — Evan Esar

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

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. — Vitruvius

It is not the custom of kings to kill kings. — Saladin

Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought. — Jules Renard

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

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I'm not big on material things, but I like my cars. They are German-made and custom-made. — Dirk Nowitzki

What was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress? — Erica Jong

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity. — Herbert Read

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

Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom. — Mason Cooley

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things. — Thomas Aquinas

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him. — Teresa Of Avila

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted. — Blaise Pascal

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

The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it. — Desi Arnaz

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

Nothing is stronger than Custom
(Fac tibi consuescat: nil adsuetudine maius) — Ovid

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

Custom is often only the antiquity of error. — Cyprian

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

I lean into him and tuck my head into that space between his head and his shoulder - the space that I always thought was custom-made just for me. — Cat Clarke

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

It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness. — Herodotus

Sati was a custom religiously followed by a few, toed halfheartedly by rather more, sidestepped by many and ignored by most — Tim Mackintosh-Smith

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature. — Plutarch

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

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee. — Epictetus

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

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. — Mark Twain

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. — Emily Post

Custom is the lord of everything,
of mortals and immortals king.
High violence it justifies,
with hand uplifted plundering. — Pindar

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

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century. — Mark Twain

The best interpreter of the law is custom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. — Robert Graves

How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born? — W.B.Yeats

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. — Plato