1.
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.
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
4.
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
10.
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
John Stuart Mill
11.
Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.
Epictetus
13.
Habit had made the custom.
Ovid
14.
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
15.
The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
Quintus Ennius
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
20.
I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
Danny Boyle
21.
How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?
Terence
22.
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
Jean de la Bruyere
23.
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Francis Bacon
24.
Custom is almost a second nature.
Plutarch
25.
There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
Michel de Montaigne
27.
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
30.
Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
J. G. Ballard
31.
Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.
John Vanbrugh
32.
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
Agnes Repplier
37.
Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
Isaac Watts
38.
What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
Thomas Carlyle
42.
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
Henry James Sumner Maine
44.
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
45.
Laws are subordinate to custom.
Plautus
48.
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
Robert Wilson Lynd
49.
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.
Michel de Montaigne