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We think according to nature; we speak according to rules; we act according to custom.—BACON, De Augmentis Scientiarum
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What custom hath endeared
We part with sadly, though we prize it not.—JOANNA BAILLIE, Basil
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Custom reconciles us to everything.—BURKE, On the Sublime and Beautiful
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Cast away the bondage and the fear
Of rotten custom.—HARTLEY COLERIDGE, Sonnets
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Custom, that unwritten law,
By which the people keep even kings in awe.—SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT, Circe
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Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.—DISRAELI
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The interrogation of custom at all points is an inevitable stage in the growth of every superior mind.—EMERSON, Representative Men
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.—ROBERT INGERSOLL, Individuality
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Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Rasselas
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.—JOHN STUART MILL, On Liberty
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The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.—MONTAIGNE, Essays
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Nothing is stronger than custom.—OVID, The Art of Love
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Bad customs are better broke than kept up.—Proverb
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Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.—Proverb
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Custom calls me to it:
What custom wills, in all things should we do it.—SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus
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But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born,—it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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New Customs,
Though they be never so ridiculous,
Nay, let 'em be unmanly, yet are follow'd.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
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What we call necessary institutions are often no more than institutions to which we have grown accustomed.—DE TOCQUEVILLE
