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.
View quotes by Joseph Wood KrutchCustom is the law of fools.
View quotes by Sir John VanbrughCustom reconciles us to everything.
View quotes by Edmund BurkeCustom adapts itself to expediency.
View quotes by TacitusCustom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
View quotes by Charles DavenportThey are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient
custom.
View quotes by William CongreveBe not so bigoted to any
custom as to worship at the expense of truth
View quotes by Johann Georg Von ZimmermannOf course poets have morals and manners of their own, and
custom is no argument with them.
View quotes by Thomas HardyCustom, the unwritten law,
By which the people keep even kings in awe. [Circe, II]
View quotes by Charles DavenantCustom is the tyranny of the lower human faculties over the higher
View quotes by Suzanne Curchod NeckerThe laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from
customView quotes by MontaigneAge cannot wither her, nor
custom stale Her infinite variety (Antony And Cleopatra, Act 2 Scene 2)
View quotes by William ShakespeareCustom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth
View quotes by Aaron HillIt was Sunday, and, according to his
custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors' coffee-joint on Polk Street
View quotes by Frank NorrisIt is the
custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
View quotes by Pope Gregory VIII am yours, by parentage and
custom and by duty undertaken towards you. I am your wizard. But it is time that you recalled that, though I am a servant, I am not your servant
View quotes by Ursula Le GuinCustom, then, is the great guide of human life (An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding)
View quotes by David HumeAges 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.
View quotes by Walter LippmannThe grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient
custom.
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