quotations about custom
What custom hath endeared
We part with sadly, though we prize it not.
JOANNA BAILLIE
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Basil
For the customs of the peoples are delusion;
Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.
They decorate it with silver and with gold;
They fasten it with nails and with hammers
So that it will not totter.
Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they,
And they cannot speak;
They must be carried,
Because they cannot walk!
Do not fear them,
For they can do no harm,
Nor can they do any good.
BIBLE
Jeremiah 10:3-5
Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.
JOHN VANBRUGH
The Provoked Husband
The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
The Complete Essays
Custom is the sovereign of mortals and of gods: with its powerful hand it regulates things the most violent.
PINDARUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The deadliest foe to love is custom.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Devereux
When a custom is actually proved to exist, the next enquiry is into the legality of it; for if it is not a good custom it ought to be no longer used.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Commentaries on the Laws of England
I cannot draw a distinction as to what length of time will render a practice legal.
C. J. DALLAS
Butt v. Conant, 1828
Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom.
ELIZABETH GOUGE
The Dean's Watch
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
Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.
CYPRIAN
attributed, Day's Collacon