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There is nothing more nearly permanent in human life than a well-established custom. - Joseph Anderson Custom is second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.] - Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo) Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life. - Francis Bacon Experience is the mother of custom. - Henry Ward Beecher There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. - Christian Nestell Bovee Custom reconciles us to everything. - Edmund Burke Custom doth make dotards of us all. - Thomas Carlyle We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned. - Thomas Carlyle An ancient custom obtains force of nature. [Lat., Vetus consuetudo naturae vim obtinet.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Inventione Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present. - Charles Caleb Colton When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest. - Charles Caleb Colton To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes is easier than to think. - William Cowper Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone To rev'rence what is ancient, and can plead A course of long observance for its use, That even servitude, the worst of ills, Because deliver'd down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing! - William Cowper, Task (bk. V, l. 298) The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, True to the jingling of our leader's bells. - William Cowper, Tirocinium (l. 251) Man yields to custom, as he bows to fate, In all things ruled--mind, body, and estate, In pain, in sickness, we for cure apply To them we know not, and we know not why. - George Crabbe, Tale III--The Gentleman Farmer (l. 86) Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error. - Saint Cyprian (Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus) The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. - Dante ("Dante Alighieri"), Paradiso (XXVI, 137) Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Only that he may conform To (Tyrant) customs. - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes--Second Week--Third Day (pt. II) The custom and fashion of to-day will be the awkwardness and outrage of to-morrow. So arbitrary are these transient laws. - Alexandre Dumas pere Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none. - Henry Fielding The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest. - Benjamin Franklin Custom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth. - Aaron Hill Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant. - Henry Home, Lord Kames Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. - Robert Green Ingersoll Displaying page 1 of 3 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3
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