So many countries so many customs.[ Proverb ]
A deep meaning resides in old customs.[ Friedrich Schiller ]
A deep meaning often lies in old Customs.[ Schiller ]
Bad customs are better broke than kept up.[ Proverb ]
With customs we live well, but laws undo us.[ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.[ Schiller ]
New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous.
Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are followed.[ William Shakespeare ]
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow customs.[ Montaigne ]
Manners, morals, customs change: the passions are always the same.[ Mme. de Flahaut ]
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd.[ Charlotte Bronte ]
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.[ Dante ]
Long customs are not easily broken: he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain.[ Johnson ]
Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.[ Hannah More ]
Light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever in his affections and customs.[ Bacon ]
Monotony, even under circumstances least favourable to the usual elements of happiness, becomes a happiness in itself, growing, as it were, unseen, out of the undisturbed certainty of peculiar customs.[ Lord Lytton ]