A Quote by Anatole France

It is not customary to love what one has.

Anatole France

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Love To Love

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Anatole France
French - Novelist
April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

Katharine Hepburn

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

John Stuart Mill

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.

William Shakespeare

In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.

Aristotle

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Seneca the Younger

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Oscar Wilde

At Liverpool, winning is customary.

Fernando Torres

Do not act following customary beliefs.

Miyamoto Musashi

Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.

Andrew Cuomo

The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

Flann O'Brien

But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

Holly Golightly

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Seneca the Younger

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.