Custom quotes

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◆ Halloween: a magical and mysterious holiday all full of surprises in which, amongst treats and tricks, fear and horror turn into joy and play.

- Jean Paul Malfatti100

◆ Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century

- Mark Twain99

◆ Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular

- Benjamin Disraeli99

◆ Custom reconciles us to everything

- Edmund Burk99

◆ Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful

- Michel De Montaigne99

◆ Custom is the great guide to human life

- David Hume99

◆ We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned

- Thomas Carlyle99

◆ Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned

- Joseph Wood Krutch99

◆ No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

- Ruth Benedict99

◆ The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

- Dante Alighieri99

◆ You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

- Martha Graham99

◆ Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

- Hermann Hesse99

◆ No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

- Carrie Chapman Catt99

◆ Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudicial in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and race commends by custom.

- Arthur Helps99

◆ Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom

- Lord Byron99