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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 Thomas Carlyle Blaise Pascal John Vanbrugh Henry Ward Beecher John Stuart Mill Evan Esar John Quincy Adams Edmund Burke James G. Frazer Saint Augustine Plutarch Mary Wortley Montagu Francis Bacon Robert E. Howard Danny Boyle Henry James Sumner Maine Saladin Plautus 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
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

7.
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.
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
John Stuart Mill

10.
Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.
Epictetus

11.
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
Christian Nestell Bovee

12.
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
Samuel Daniel

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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

15.
Custom alone regulates morals.
Anatole France

16.
Habit had made the custom.
Ovid

17.
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

18.
The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
Quintus Ennius

19.
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
Walter Savage Landor

20.
Custom does often reason overrule.
John Wilmot

21.
It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.
Evan Esar

22.
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Francis Bacon

23.
Custom is almost a second nature.
Plutarch

24.
There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
Michel de Montaigne

25.
Custom makes monsters of us all.
Ngaio Marsh

26.
The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.
Aeschylus

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

28.
It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year
John Quincy Adams

29.
Bad laws make bad customs.
Jane Aiken Hodge

30.
Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
J. G. Ballard

31.
Nice customs curtsy to great kings.
William Shakespeare

32.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
Joseph Wood Krutch

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The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
Henry James Sumner Maine

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Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke

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The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
John Stuart Mill

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Laws are subordinate to custom.
Plautus

37.
The breach of custom Is breach of all.
William Shakespeare

38.
Custom determines what is agreeable.
Blaise Pascal

39.
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
Robert Wilson Lynd

40.
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.
Michel de Montaigne

41.
Experience is the mother of custom.
Henry Ward Beecher

42.
The empire of custom is most mighty.
Publilius Syrus

43.
Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.
William Shakespeare

44.
Never can custom conquer nature,
for she is ever unconquered.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

45.
What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise Pascal

46.
Custom is the law of fools.
John Vanbrugh

47.
Customs represent the experience of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher

48.
Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.
Mary Wortley Montagu

49.
Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.
John Vanbrugh

50.
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
Agnes Repplier