Customs Quotes - Page 29

• I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Country, Regret

  Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”

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• Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Couple, Men, Keys

  "Coming into Los Angeles" (song) (1969)

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• The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other.

  Saul Bellow

  Knives, Design, Hatred

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!

  Kerry King

  Crazy, World, Touring

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• There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

  Graydon Carter

  Past, Missing, Wish

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• Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time in the form of legislation and customs.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Men, Long

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.151, Vintage

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• Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Short Life, America, Unnecessary

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

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

  Samuel Butler

  Country, Feelings, Peers

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.48, The Floating Press

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• It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Men, Liberty

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1375, e-artnow

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• 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.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Fashion, People, Study

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.309

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• 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.

  Bill Vaughan

  Pockets, Coins, Flattery

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• Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and tired librarians. Like everything of importance since the invention of the cloak and the shroud, its origins are cloaked in mystery and shrouded in secrecy. Some scholars believe that the first instance of book burning occurred in the Middle Ages, when a monk was trying to illuminate a manuscript. All agree that book burning was almost non-existent during the period when books were made of stone.

  Richard Armour

  Atheist, Children, Believe

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• In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, America, Law

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter XIII, 1835.

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• The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.

  Emma Goldman

  Pregnancy, America, Class

  "Mother Earth" Journal, 1911.

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• Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

  Ben Jonson

  Mistress, Language, Stamps

  Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

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• Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Errors, May

  Henry Fielding (1824). “The Works of Henry Fielding, with a Life of the Author: Plays”, p.199

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• Look, we're Americans: optimistic, addicted to the quick fix, constantly on the hunt for the new and exotic. It's much easier for us to accept a guy with a big white beard hawking his own custom blend of saw palmetto and squirrel dandruff that it is to hear a real doctor telling us to lay off the big macs, and get off our fat asses and take a walk every decade or so.

  Dennis Miller

  Real, Optimistic, White

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• In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

  Antoni Tapies

  Religious, Art, Loss

  "Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.

  George Cheyne

  Animal, Practice, Differences

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• There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. This is the great truth which has always lain at the back of baby-worship, and which will support it to the end.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Baby, Stars, Children

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• 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.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Dancing, Ballet

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.145

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• The best interpreter of the law is custom.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Law, Interpreter

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• As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold.

  Vayalar Ravi

  Age, Gold, Persons

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• The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order before attending church any more than a hospital expects people to get healed before they show up.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Order, People

  Mark Driscoll (2013). “A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?”, p.193, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful...
  The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one

  John Lachs

  Dream, Years, Land

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