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Customs Quotes

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past. Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There... David Hume
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them. Robert A. Heinlein
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will..."
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. George Bernard Shaw
Blaise Pascal quote: "Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but..."
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? Blaise Pascal
Marion Zimmer Bradley quote: "Customs have no reason; they simply are."
Customs have no reason; they simply are. Marion Zimmer Bradley
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always..."
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden. Mark Twain
Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't. Deepak Chopra
Stefano Gabbana quote: "Customers are very demanding and well informed."
Customers are very demanding and well informed. Stefano Gabbana
David Hume quote: "Custom is the great guide to human life."
Custom is the great guide to human life. David Hume
Charles Davenport quote: "Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even..."
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. Charles Davenport
Samuel Daniel quote: "Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art."
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. Samuel Daniel
Aaron Hill quote: "Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed..."
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth. Aaron Hill
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. John Updike
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. Lord Chesterfield

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