Top 516 Customs Quotes & Sayings

A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe so they can throw you in jail.

Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the duties, and the happiness of individuals, resolve themselves into customs and habits, favorable, in the highest degree, to society. In no case is this more apparent, than in the customs of nations respecting marriage.

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

One of the paradoxes of liberal societies arises from the commitment to tolerance. A society committed to respecting the viewpoints and customs of diverse people within a pluralistic society inevitably encounters this challenge: will you tolerate those who themselves do not agree to respect the viewpoints or customs of others? Paradoxically, the liberal commitment to tolerance requires, at some point, intolerance for those who would reject that very commitment.

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

We have a deportation force. It's called Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. And the union for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for the first time in their history endorsed Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States of America.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.

It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

I think a platform such as YouTube has to respect local laws and customs.

The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

Customs is punishment for those who travel. This will teach you for traveling to our country!

If Northern Ireland is in one customs regime and the Republic of Ireland is in another, why won't a customs border be necessary, just as happens with every other land border of this type?

By remaining inside a customs union and the single market in a transitional phase we would be certain that goods and services could continue to flow between the E.U. and the U.K. without tariffs, customs checks or additional red tape.

Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene... All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

Thus it is that Pope Innocent III states [De Consuetudine] that, it is necessary to obey the Pope in all things as long as he, himself, does not go against the universal customs of the Church, but should he go against the universal customs of the Church, 'he need not be followed' . . .

Education Proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws- If the patterns of institutions, customs, and laws are broken for this philosophy education should fix itself. There should be several different things taught instead of one "Supreme Factor".

If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.

Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.

Immigration customs enforcement is a role that makes sense. We have to have something that is doing that.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.

We should advocate that the North should stay in the customs union and the single market and that any customs checks should be in the ports and airports, not on land borders.

Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.

I don't like people who take drugs... customs men for example.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

It is necessary to obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not go against the universal customs of the Church, but should he go against the universal customs of the Church, he need not be followed.

There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.

One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs.

You like to think that you're bigger than your traditions and customs, but they form who you are.

American soldiers [are] going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the ñ of ñ the historical customs, religious customs.

When I was growing up, I cared very little for the customs of my parents, the special things that we're supposed to do as Vietnamese people. But now that I am a parent, I go out of my way to make sure that my son goes to visit his grandparents and participates in customs like the Lunar New Year celebration.

Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents.

Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement - at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist. Only, instead of demanding that those social customs should be maintained through the authority of a few, it demands it from the continued action of all.

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.