Custom Quotes

Custom is second nature.

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.

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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