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For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The past informs the present.
— Fennel Hudson
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
— Bertrand Russell
So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.
— Henry David Thoreau
Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.
— Thomas Paine
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
— William Wordsworth
Custom is almost a second nature.
— Plutarch
Custom determines what is agreeable.
— Blaise Pascal
Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.
— John Stuart Mill
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.
— Michel De Montaigne
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
— Abigail Adams
Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.
— Vincent De Paul
The empire of custom is most mighty.
— Publilius Syrus
It is good diplomacy to allow our rulers their customs without adopting them ourselves.
— Susan Leona Fisher
Custom doth make dotards of us all.
— Thomas Carlyle
Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom
— Edward Sapir
Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.
— Werner Heisenberg
Customs of the Egyptians. Chapter I. Concerning The Kings And
— Charles Rollin
He is Your Customer, the Reason behind Your Customs.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
The film was based on a short story written by a customs officer, and was based on his experiences.
— Anupama Chopra
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
— John Stuart Mill
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[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
— George Bernard Shaw
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
— George Bernard Shaw
Customs represent the experience of mankind.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
— Wernher Von Braun
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
— Albert Camus
Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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
Bad laws make bad customs.
— Jane Aiken Hodge
The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.
— Aeschylus
I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
— Danny Boyle
Custom without truth is error grown old.
— Tertullian
And so we walked through customs arm in arm; while the officer barely looked at my passport, he did look twice at Eva Maria's cleavage.
— Anne Fortier
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
— Sinclair Lewis
Habit had made the custom.
— Ovid
The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
— Quintus Ennius
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
— Moritz Gudemann
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
— James A. Michener
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions ... and shall rise and fall with Americans.
— Frederick Douglass
Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.
— William Shakespeare
The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
— Sabine Baring-Gould
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
— Henry James Sumner Maine
Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.
— Friedrich Schiller
Customs is punishment for those who travel. This will teach you for traveling to our country!
— Godfrey
Be a man with living principles within; never bow to the varying customs of worldly wisdom.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents,
— Pope Francis
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.
— Daniel Pipes
Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there.
— Victor Hugo
Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.
— Isaac Asimov
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.
— Charles W. Chesnutt
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.
— Michel De Montaigne
Customs, morals--is there a difference?
— Robert A. Heinlein
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
— Emma Lazarus
Customs have no reason; they simply are.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
give a mental assent to the customs of their forefathers,
— Swami Vivekananda
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
— Jean De La Bruyere
If in other respects the old condition of things be continued, and there be no discordance in their customs, men live peaceably with one another ...
— Niccolo Machiavelli
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Custom is the law of fools.
— John Vanbrugh
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
— James Stockdale
You gotta look backwards to go forwards.
— Fennel Hudson
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish. — G.K. Chesterton
What I miss most about Mexico isn't the food or the customs; it's my family and the way we'd all sit around chatting together.
— Javier Hernandez
Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.
— Wilfrid Sheed
In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!
— Kerry King
Custom makes monsters of us all.
— Ngaio Marsh
Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in.
— Maureen Corrigan
Relations are actually tied by heart not by Customs, coz Friendship never required any of It.
— Samar Sudha
Custom does often reason overrule.
— John Wilmot
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
— Samuel Johnson
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.
— Richard Leakey
The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art
— Raja Ravi Varma
Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.
— Brand Blanshard
Germans found "American" (by which they often meant Irish) bars and their drinking customs both peculiar and unhealthy.
— Donna R. Gabaccia
The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
— Michel De Montaigne
