Customs Quotes

It is not the custom of kings to kill kings.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily.

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

Custom alone regulates morals.

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

Habit had made the custom.

Custom makes monsters of us all.

Custom does often reason overrule.

It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things. [Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.]

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

Custom is almost a second nature.

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.