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 ]