Custom Quotes

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

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

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

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

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

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

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