Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom Quotes
Ancient custom has the force of law.
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation’s own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments.
The chains of custom are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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.
Custom is the principle magistrate of man’s life.
