Quotes about custom




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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."

Bacon, Francis on custom    Share


"Custom reconciles us to everything."

Burke, Edmund on custom    Share

"Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe."

Davenport, Charles on custom    Share

"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."

Hardy, Thomas on custom    Share

"Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room."

Hazlitt, William on custom    Share

"Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth."

Hill, Aaron on custom    Share

"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life."

Hume, David on custom    Share

"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."

Mill, John Stuart on custom    Share

"Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on custom    Share

"The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on custom    Share

"Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit."

Ovid on custom    Share

"Laws are subordinate to custom."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on custom    Share

"Custom is a tyrant."

Proverb on custom    Share

"The empire of custom is most mighty."

Syrus, Publilius on custom    Share

"Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it."

Twain, Mark on custom    Share

"People do more from custom than from reason."

Unknown, Source on custom    Share

"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."

Updike, John on custom    Share

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