Top 516 Customs Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.
Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Customs and traditions followed in North and South India are different. But the underlying sentiments are the same.
Customs, traditions, laws should be flexible, within good reason, if that is what it takes to make our democracy work.
So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.
I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.'
The Foreign Office works hard to remind people of local laws and customs as often they can be very different to British law.
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?
Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.
One of the reasons people voted to leave the E.U. is so that we could have the freedom to strike trade deals with countries outside the E.U. Staying locked into the customs union prevents this.
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.
Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.
Believers may come from different cultures, countries, or customs, but we serve one God who unites us all.
The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art.
Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!
In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
I got to travel to some pretty awesome places, learn other people's customs, and see what works in their world differently than in ours.
Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.
All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.
Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.
Our destiny is as a global beacon of free trade and we cannot deliver that while bound to the declining E.U. and its protectionist Customs Union.
Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and wrong. You are filled with fears. This conditioning interferes with your psychic perception.
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.
A jobs-first Brexit deal means remaining in the single market and customs union.
I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
From my own perspective, I value productivity more than tradition, but the customs of the House evolve slowly.
The renaissance movement and social reformers have taught us that superstitious beliefs and customs should be challenged and opposed.
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
Preventing people from illegally immigrating to the United States should be the primary purpose of Customs and Border Protection.
The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.
It is an open secret that customs officers pay millions in bribes to secure the lucrative posting in the airport, cargo terminals or ports.
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.
New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.
What I miss most about Mexico isn't the food or the customs; it's my family and the way we'd all sit around chatting together.
The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
