Quotes about Customs

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I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an ac — Andy Rooney, Sincerely, Andy Rooney
Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things.""But dif — Lemony Snicket, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story
Anubis is associated with the mummification and protection of the dead for their journeys through Denver International A — Stephen Moles, The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable or, Beneath the Burnt Umbrella
[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. — George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra
I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It was all that I had e — Carolyn Jessop
All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, custo — Paul Gauguin, Noa Noa
Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity. — Gene Edward Veith Jr., Reading Between the Lines
Customs, morals--is there a difference? — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live tog — Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy
The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirl — Maya Angelou
But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities
Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them.""They do. You just can't see th — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
You gotta look backwards to go forwards. — Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
The past informs the present. — Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
Preserve the spirit of a ‘lost’ age, when time moved slower. — Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only — Franz Rosenzweig, Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought
If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of be — Herodotus, The Histories
Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them — Mark Twain