Quotes about Customs

He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

Few things discover the state of the arts amongst people more certainly than the presents that are made to them by foreigners.

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

One of the things I was taught as a child, and which I taught my children also, is never to go to anyone's house without bringing something — never visit anyone without bringing them a gift.

If you're a good Amish girl, you're courting, you have three or four different beaus, and you go out and stay out all night. That's just their tradition. They date under the covering of night. No one knows who they're dating or seeing until two weeks before they're going to be married. It's how they've done it for 300 years.

Ours is a country with diversified culture and centuries-old tradition, which have to be preserved at any cost.

Transcendentalists have been accused of being rebels and rule-breakers. But if they disregard society's customs and laws, it's because they're listening to conscience and obeying the Law Maker within. There are situations where virtue asks us to break the rules.

There are innocent men who worship God after the tradition of

Properly speaking, a culture does not have a tradition; it is a tradition.

I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.