Customs Quotes - Page 15

• Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Hands, Nurse

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.1260, 谷月社

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• Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Soil, Strange, Thrive

  "Demetrius". Book by Friedrich Schiller, I. 1, February 15, 1857.

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• Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Death, Determination, Men

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• If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and the first thing an exploratory person would say is "why not?"

  John Medina

  People, Why Not, Might

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Reality, Democracy, Culture

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• Much of eating is about customs and habits, and we've developed some unfortunate ones. Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. You know, the average person will eat up to 50 percent more food when distracted.

  Mehmet Oz

  Average, Together, Tvs

  "Dr. Oz Talks to Oprah About Food, Family and What It Really Means to Be Healthy". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins.

  Rick Warren

  Weakness, Sin, Responsible

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• 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.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  New Year, Growing Up, Son

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Father, Fall, Atheism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.8, Booklassic

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• Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.

  Pythagoras

  Fire, Wind, Increase

  Pythagoras (2013). “The Golden Verses of Pythagoras”, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

  James G. Frazer

  Burning, Misinterpretation

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Attitude, Gone, Stuff

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• 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.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Air, Singing, Battle

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2011). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of Families that altogether depend on two silly if not odious Customs; the taking of Snuff and smoking of Tobacco; both which it is certain do infinitely more hurt than good to those that are addicted to them!

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Hurt, Silly, Two

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.194, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it...

  Mark Twain

  Country, Believe, Humor

  Mark Twain's "New England Weather" speech, www.pbs.org. 1876.

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• When the rich build bigger, they shift the frame of reference that shapes the demands of the near rich, who travel in the same social circles. Perhaps it's now the custom in those circles to host your daughter's wedding reception at home rather than in a hotel or country club. So the near rich feel they too need a house with a ballroom. And when they build bigger, they shift the frame of reference for the group just below them, and so on, all the way down.

  Robert H. Frank

  Daughter, Country, Home

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. (Matthew 2:11) [This] adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned in Scripture, according to which Kings and important people were worshiped; this did not mean more than falling down before them at their feet and honoring them.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Kings, Children

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• Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

  George Santayana

  Mean, Government, Political

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.45, MIT Press

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• I've traveled everywhere, and it's been amazing. I used to think taking a flight was kind of a big deal, you know? I'm from the valleys of South Wales and when my family used to go on holiday, it was a big thing. Packing the bags, checking in, not losing your passport, going through customs, the X-ray machine, all that stuff used to be quite an intense thing. Now it's like catching a bus, I don't even think about it.

  Luke Evans

  Holiday, Thinking, Bags

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Custom doth make dotards of us all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.250

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• Custom does often reason overrule.

  John Wilmot

  Doe, Reason

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• As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Country, Heart, Simple

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.102

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• Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.

  Isaac Asimov

  Hair, Accustomed, Seems

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.225, Spectra

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• 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.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Mean, Men, Flags

  Robert Smith Surtees (1930). “The novels of R.S. Surtees”

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• It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at.

  Enoch Powell

  Military, Europe, Drawing

  "Enoch Powell on 1992". Book by Enoch Powell, p. 93. Speech in Grimsby, 1989.

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