Quotes about Custom

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.

In the eighteenth century, historians tell us, 'valentinage,' from which Valentine's Day was derived, allowed wives in northern France to make love, on a few days each year and with the knowledge of their husbands, with a 'valentine' of their choosing.

Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.

One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.

Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.

Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.

But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.

both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.

You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.