quotations about custom
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accomodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior.
RUTH BENEDICT
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Patterns of Culture
My normal isn't your normal, and your normal isn't anyone else's normal. In fact, on this journey called life, normal isn't normal.
TYEISHA BREWER-FIELDS
Normal By Whose Standards?
So they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves according to their custom with swords and lances until the blood gushed out on them.
BIBLE
1 Kings 18:28
Cast away the bondage and the fear of rotten custom.
HARTLEY COLERIDGE
Sonnets
A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
Just because you have become accustomed to a thing, does not make it right.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Atreides
Woe unto you, O torrent of human custom! Who shall stay your course? When will you ever run dry? How long will you carry down the sons of Eve into that vast and hideous ocean.
AUGUSTINE
Confessions
What custom hath endeared
We part with sadly, though we prize it not.
JOANNA BAILLIE
Basil
Custom is another law.
LATIN PROVERB
We have brought in the yoke of custom to improve the world, and in the world the custom sticks.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Physics and Politics
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
The deadliest foe to love is custom.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Devereux
Nice customs curtsy to great kings.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry V
The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
The Complete Essays
I cannot draw a distinction as to what length of time will render a practice legal.
C. J. DALLAS
Butt v. Conant, 1828
The slaves of custom and established mode,
With pack-horse constancy we keep the road
Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
True to the jingling of our leader's bells.
WILLIAM COWPER
The Task
For the customs of the peoples are delusion;
Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.
They decorate it with silver and with gold;
They fasten it with nails and with hammers
So that it will not totter.
Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they,
And they cannot speak;
They must be carried,
Because they cannot walk!
Do not fear them,
For they can do no harm,
Nor can they do any good.
BIBLE
Jeremiah 10:3-5
Custom is the sovereign of mortals and of gods: with its powerful hand it regulates things the most violent.
PINDARUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Custom is a violent and deceiving school-mistress.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Essays
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
JOSEPH W. KRUTCH
The Modern Temper