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Quotes about Usages

But they must be sorry folk to bow down to the rich in such a fashion, said big John. I am but a poor commoner of England myself, and yet I know something of charters, liberties franchises, usages, privileges, customs, and the like. If these be broken, then all men know that it is time to buy arrow-heads. Aye
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson