Quotes about Custom

Habit is a great deadener.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories, and charitable in spirit.

In the Roman Empire a child's religion was determined not by some choice in the teenage years but by that child's family.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains -- chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment -- in a word, Circumstance -- and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

Australasian's custom of speaking of England as home. It was always pretty to hear it, and often it was said in an unconsciously caressing way that made it touching; in a way which transmuted a sentiment into an embodiment, and made one seem to see Australasia as a young girl stroking mother England's old gray head.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

All tradition is merely the past.

Something old, something new,Something borrowed, something blue,And a lucky sixpence in her shoe.

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