15 Quotes on Custom
-
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Author:
Tacitus
-
To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.
Author:
Tom Selleck
-
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Author:
Jean Rousseau
-
Laws are subordinate to custom.
Author:
Titus Plautus
-
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
Author:
John Owen
-
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
-
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
Author:
John Mill
-
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
-
I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
Author:
Adam Jones
-
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
Author:
William Hazlitt
-
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
Author:
William Congreve
-
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
-
Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.
Author:
Martin Chemnitz
-
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Author:
Carrie Catt
-
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Author:
Edmund Burke
Privacy policy
