Custom Quotes IV

CUSTOM QUOTES IV

quotations about custom

When a custom is actually proved to exist, the next enquiry is into the legality of it; for if it is not a good custom it ought to be no longer used.

WILLIAM BLACKSTONE

Commentaries on the Laws of England

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Tags: William Blackstone

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash; for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashions to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

Individuality

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Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry V

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'Tis base,
And argues a low spirit, to be taught
By customs, and to let the vulgar grow
To our example.

ROBERT MEAD

The Combat of Love and Friendship

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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

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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

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Just because you have become accustomed to a thing, does not make it right.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Atreides

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I cannot draw a distinction as to what length of time will render a practice legal.

C. J. DALLAS

Butt v. Conant, 1828

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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?

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Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

JOSEPH W. KRUTCH

The Modern Temper

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Cast away the bondage and the fear of rotten custom.

HARTLEY COLERIDGE

Sonnets

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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

SINCLAIR LEWIS

Main Street

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Custom governs the world: it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners, and rules with a hand of a despot.

J. BARTLETT

attributed, Day's Collacon

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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

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The deadliest foe to love is custom.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Devereux

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Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.

CYPRIAN

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.