The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
Custom Quotes
Custom does often reason overrule. And only serves for reason to the fool.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
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.
