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Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. Robert Hall

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Ovid

Laws are subordinate to custom.

Plautus

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Blaise Pascal

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Plato

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

John Stuart Mill

In Judaism, almost every ritual entails either food or the absence of food. Yom Kippur, for instance, is the absence of food. Part of it is Talmudic, part of it is custom. So much of Judaism was bound up in dietary laws. So everything you ate - the very act itself - was part of religion.

Gil Marks

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.

Walter Lippmann

Custom is the great guide to human life.

David Hume

'Custom is the great deadener.' There is no doubt that we of the white race are going on obliviously supporting customs that would seem abhorrent and incredible to a higher and more brotherly civilization.

Edwin Markham

Some women are able to wake up looking effortlessly chic - as though a bevy of fashion fairies twisted their low-lit locks into a messy chignon while they slept. They choose a frock from their exceptionally curated closet and leave a trail of custom fragrance and perfection in their wake.

Meghan Markle

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

John Owen

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

Jean Froissart

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

Felix Adler

As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.

Paige Craig

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Will Durant

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Marcus Tullius 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.

Martin Chemnitz

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

Alfred Russel Wallace

History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Edmund Burke

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

Bill Gates

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Mary Astell

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

Robert Hall

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

Michel de Montaigne

You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it's just till election day. It's an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we've got a pretty good country - until next election.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Thomas Hardy

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

David Hume

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.

Saint Ambrose

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

John Dalberg-Acton

Custom is second nature.

Saint Augustine

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Francis Bacon

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

Charles Davenport

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

Adam Jones

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

William Congreve

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

Samuel Butler