| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Dumas | The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | The old ways are the safest and surest ways. |
| Christian Nestell Bovee | There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. |
| Francis Bacon | Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom. |
| Francis Bacon | Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life. |
| J Bartlett | Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot. |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. |
| Joseph Anderson | 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. |
| Joseph Wood Krutch | Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had. |
| Legal Maxim | Ancient custom has the force of law. |
| Mark Twain | Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom. |
| Moritz Guedmann | Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. |
| Robert Green Ingersoll | Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. |
| 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 Fuller | Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools. |
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