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Customs Quotes

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It is not the custom of kings to kill kings.
Saladin

It is not the tradition of monarchs to take the life of other rulers.
Authors on Customs Quotes: Michel de Montaigne William Shakespeare Henry Ward Beecher John Stuart Mill Evan Esar Thomas Carlyle Blaise Pascal John Vanbrugh Ngaio Marsh Anatole France John Wilmot Robert Wilson Lynd Aeschylus Samuel Daniel Publilius Syrus Marcus Tullius Cicero Walter Savage Landor Joseph Wood Krutch J. G. Ballard Agnes Repplier Friedrich Schiller Terence Epictetus Jacque Fresco Ovid Christian Nestell Bovee Jean de la Bruyere Tertullian Francois Rabelais Tacitus Quintus Ennius Jane Aiken Hodge Isaac Watts
2.
Custom without truth is error grown old.
Tertullian

3.
The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.
James G. Frazer

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Custom is often only the antiquity of error.
Cyprian

5.
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus

6.
Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.
Jacque Fresco

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

8.
Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
Robert E. Howard

9.
Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.
Epictetus

10.
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
Christian Nestell Bovee

11.
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
John Stuart Mill

12.
I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
Danny Boyle

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

14.
Custom alone regulates morals.
Anatole France

15.
Habit had made the custom.
Ovid

16.
It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things. [Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.]
Francois Rabelais

17.
The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
Quintus Ennius

18.
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
Walter Savage Landor

19.
Custom does often reason overrule.
John Wilmot

20.
It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.
Evan Esar

21.
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
Samuel Daniel

22.
The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.
Aeschylus

23.
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
Jean de la Bruyere

24.
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Francis Bacon

25.
Custom is almost a second nature.
Plutarch

26.
There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
Michel de Montaigne

27.
Custom makes monsters of us all.
Ngaio Marsh

28.
Bad laws make bad customs.
Jane Aiken Hodge

29.
Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
J. G. Ballard

30.
It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year
John Quincy Adams

31.
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.
Michel de Montaigne

32.
Experience is the mother of custom.
Henry Ward Beecher

33.
The empire of custom is most mighty.
Publilius Syrus

34.
Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.
William Shakespeare

35.
Never can custom conquer nature,
for she is ever unconquered.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

36.
What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise Pascal

37.
Custom is the law of fools.
John Vanbrugh

38.
Customs represent the experience of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher

39.
Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.
Mary Wortley Montagu

40.
Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.
John Vanbrugh

41.
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
Agnes Repplier

42.
Custom doth make dotards of us all.
Thomas Carlyle

43.
A deep meaning often lies in old customs.
Friedrich Schiller

44.
Custom is second nature.
Saint Augustine

45.
Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.
Michel de Montaigne

46.
Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
Isaac Watts

47.
What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
Thomas Carlyle

48.
The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
Michel de Montaigne

49.
Nice customs curtsy to great kings.
William Shakespeare

50.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
Joseph Wood Krutch