quotations about custom
The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
The Complete Essays
Custom is a violent and deceiving school-mistress.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Essays
Custom governs the world: it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners, and rules with a hand of a despot.
J. BARTLETT
attributed, Day's Collacon
Custom is another law.
LATIN PROVERB
Custom is the sovereign of mortals and of gods: with its powerful hand it regulates things the most violent.
PINDARUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.
CYPRIAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
'Tis nothing when you are used to it.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Polite Conversation
What humanity abhors, custome reconciles and recommends to us.
JOHN LOCKE
On Education
There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom.
ELIZABETH GOUGE
The Dean's Watch
Custom alone regulates morals.
ANATOLE FRANCE
The Revolt of the Angels
Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
speech in the House of Commons, March 11, 1870
Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily.
EVAN ESAR
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