Customs Quotations | Page 2

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

I applaud the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Mississippi and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for their diligent effort to bring this ringleader of movie theft to justice and to ensure that the penalties for his crimes are properly assessed.

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

The empire of custom is most mighty.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

Custom does often reason overrule.

It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year

Laws are subordinate to custom.

Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.

Custom is the law of fools.

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

You can stuff a painting in a suitcase and find out in the customs line you owe 5 percent duty.

Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

The industry will be happy as there are no major negatives. It has cut down customs duty and has covered lot of industries as well.

The Indian customs officials sent photos of the seizure to us and most of the engineers had them up on their desks for weeks. For those who spent years of testing and failing, knowing it was being used and helping to protect against terror was exceptionally motivating.

The freight forwarding and customs brokerage expertise of American Overseas will complement Schneider's existing transportation and logistics services offerings as we continue to expand globally.

The case has been turned over to the United States Customs Service because it involves international fraud.

The figures on Chinese textile imports that we have from Customs and Excise and the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) show no major increase.

The destructive effects of corruption is most evident in smuggling, which is possible only with the collusion of rotten officials at the Bureau of Customs and elsewhere. Jobs are being wasted as domestic industries stagger from the atrocious and ruinous activities of smugglers.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

The breach of custom Is breach of all.

If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Custom determines what is agreeable.

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

May princes know then that they begin to lose (their) state at that hour in which they begin to break the laws and those customs and usages that are ancient and under which men have lived for a long time

He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

Custom alone regulates morals.

I know you have been critically looking at the mores and customs of the past and questioning their value. Every generation does that. But don't discard the time-tested values upon which civilization has been built just because they are old.

Ill Customs & bad Advice are seldom forgotten.

He sees that this great roundaboutThe world, with all its motley rout,Church, army, physic, law,Its customs and its businesses,Is no concern at all of his,And says -- what says he? -- Caw.

He sees that this great roundabout The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses, Is no concern at all of his, And says -- what says he? -- Caw.

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.

Habit had made the custom.

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

Experience is the mother of custom.

Custom is almost a second nature.

Custom doth make dotards of us all.

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

Custom is second nature.