Quotes about Custom

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

Eating is a ritual, and rituals make things easier.

Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Turning off or tuning out people was my highly developed art. The custom of letting obedient children be seen but not heard was so agreeable to me that I went one step further: Obedient children should not see or hear if they chose not to do so. I laid a handful of attention on my face and tuned up the sounds in the church.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

But woe is thee, thou torrent of human custom! Who shall stand against thee?

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

Observing these people narrowly, even when the iron hand of misfortune has shaken them from their unquestioning hold on the world, one sees little trace of religion, still less of a distinctively Christian creed. Their belief in the unseen, so far as it manifests itself at all, seems to be rather of a pagan kind; their moral notions, though held with strong tenacity, seem to have no standard beyond hereditary custom.