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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.
Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."
Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.
A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.
I do not mean to suggest for a moment that all it takes to be a top executive is a custom-tailored European suit. You also need the correct shirt and tie.
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
I sleep on a Tempur-Pedic mattress, and I have custom-made sheets. They're white with some patterns, and the highest thread count of Egyptian cotton you can get.
When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.
Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.
Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories, and charitable in spirit.
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.
The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled.
Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.
What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.
In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
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.
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.
What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture.
Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
I'm not big on material things, but I like my cars. They are German-made and custom-made.
I think Hong Kong has always had this tradition of custom-made suits, which I've never done but love the idea of.
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
I like walking into the studio everyday and having completely custom, diverse artwork to do. And my clients keep the interesting ideas flowing in.
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
It would be cool to custom-write music for some kind of story. That'd be cool.
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.
The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down.
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
I have one custom guitar which I play almost exclusively. I have others - sometimes you want a little texture, kind of a different sound or something.
It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things.
[Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.]
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.
If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.
One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
You cannot attain #? mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do
What's with this weird hotel custom of leaving a piece of chocolate on the pillow? I awoke thinking my brain had hemorrhaged some sort of fecal matter.
Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country.
[Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]
According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets.
Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!
