Customs Quotes - Page 34

• Experience is the mother of custom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there.

  Charlotte Ronson

  Vintage, Nyu, Tees

  "Arizona 20 Years: Charlotte Ronson". Interview with Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Powerful, Law, Society

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.195

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• Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in case of being wounded. This was all the more necessary under these circumstances, as many of them were still covered with coal dust.

  Richard Hough

  Men, Dust, Sea

  Richard Hough (2003). “Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century”, p.33, The Overlook Press

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• Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior - based on information collected through fieldwork.

  Marvin Harris

  Mean, People, Portraits

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• Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.

  Hannah More

  Nice, Soul, Rays

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.301

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• Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

  Mae West

  Men, Jewels, Immortality

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• Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purposes, whether of good or of evil.

  Horace Mann

  Philosophy, Cutting, Evil

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.11

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• What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall,
  Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all.
  Let muckworms who in dirty acres deal,
  Lament those hardships which we cannot feel,
  His grace who smarts, may bellow if he please,
  But must I bellow too, who sit at ease?
  By custom safe, the poets' numbers flow,
  Free as the light and air some years ago.
  No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains
  To tax our labours, and excise our brains.
  Burthens like these with earthly buildings bear,
  No tributes laid on castles in the air.

  Charles Churchill

  Pain, Smart, Dirty

  Charles Churchill (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.89

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• When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Change, Self, Birth

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth. The thinker who is really free, is independent; he is under no dread; he yields to no menace; he is not dismayed by law, nor custom, nor pulpits, nor society-whose opinion appals so many. He who has the manly passion of free thought, has no fear of anything, save the fear of error.

  George Holyoake

  Spiritual, Passion, Mean

  George Jacob Holyoake (1896). “English Secularism: A Confession of Belief”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• No secret that I enjoy motor sports and cars in particular, building cars, building custom cars. Part of that scene. I love the flow of the cars and I love the art part of them. I love the sleekness and the uniqueness of each car that you can dream up.

  James Hetfield

  Sports, Dream, Art

  "James Hetfield Of Metallica Talks SF Giants, New Music, Custom Cars And More". Interview with Franco Finn, live105.cbslocal.com. May 17, 2014.

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• Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.

  Celia Green

  Strong, Science, Race

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Years, May, Infamous

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• It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things.
  [Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Novelty, Produce, Monstrous

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• Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

  Edward Sapir

  Fashion, Departure, Guise

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.374, Univ of California Press

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• I'd see the bus pass every day… But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.

  Rosa Parks

  White, Choices, Black

  Speech by Chris Dodd. Congressional Record (Bound Volumes), Part 11, July 20, 2006.

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• Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

  Emily Post

  Social Values, Courtesy, Manners

  Emily Post (1960). “Etiquette: the blue book of social usage”

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• And yet we check and chide
  The airy angels as they float about us,
  With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow
  The same tame slaves to custom and the world.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Children, Angel, World

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• Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fashion, Party, Past

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.232

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• It used to be the custom for the bachelor dinner to take place the night before the wedding. Now, however, the bridesmaids' and ushers' dinner is usually on that night, for a groom realizes that he and his attendants need some time in which to recover sufficiently to be able to distinguish the altar from the organ and walk up the aisle with no mishaps.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Night, Needs, Dinner

  Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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• Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

  RuPaul

  Superstitions, Observation, Clear

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• Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

  Johan Huizinga

  Art, History, Historical

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• What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

  Oscar Wilde

  Loyalty, Imagination, Fidelity

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.

  Bret Harte

  Writing, Together, Letters

  Bret Harte (1902). “Condensed Novels: New Burlesques”

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