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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 John Stuart Mill Evan Esar Thomas Carlyle Blaise Pascal John Vanbrugh Henry Ward Beecher Joseph Wood Krutch J. G. Ballard Agnes Repplier Epictetus Friedrich Schiller Terence Jacque Fresco Ovid Christian Nestell Bovee Jean de la Bruyere Tertullian Quintus Ennius Francois Rabelais Tacitus Jane Aiken Hodge Isaac Watts Cyprian Edmund Burke John Quincy Adams Plutarch James G. Frazer Saint Augustine Mary Wortley Montagu Francis Bacon Danny Boyle
2.
Custom without truth is error grown old.
Tertullian

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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

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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus

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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

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

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

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

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

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Custom alone regulates morals.
Anatole France

13.
Habit had made the custom.
Ovid

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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

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

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

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Custom does often reason overrule.
John Wilmot

18.
It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.
Evan Esar

19.
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
Samuel Daniel

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

21.
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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Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
Jean de la Bruyere

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Custom is almost a second nature.
Plutarch

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

25.
There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
Michel de Montaigne

26.
Custom makes monsters of us all.
Ngaio Marsh

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The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.
Aeschylus

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

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

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

32.
Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.
John Vanbrugh

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

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Custom doth make dotards of us all.
Thomas Carlyle

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A deep meaning often lies in old customs.
Friedrich Schiller

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Custom is second nature.
Saint Augustine

37.
Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.
Michel de Montaigne

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

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

40.
The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
Michel de Montaigne

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Nice customs curtsy to great kings.
William Shakespeare

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

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Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke

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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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The breach of custom Is breach of all.
William Shakespeare

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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

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Custom determines what is agreeable.
Blaise Pascal

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

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Experience is the mother of custom.
Henry Ward Beecher