Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

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.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

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.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Custom is second nature.

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

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.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.