Customs Quotes - Page 23

• Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

  Alfred Marshall

  Law, Rights, Wealth

  Alfred Marshall (1890). “Principles of Economics”

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• The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other.

  Saul Bellow

  Knives, Design, Hatred

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!

  Kerry King

  Crazy, World, Touring

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• As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold.

  Vayalar Ravi

  Age, Gold, Persons

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• The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order before attending church any more than a hospital expects people to get healed before they show up.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Order, People

  Mark Driscoll (2013). “A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?”, p.193, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful...
  The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one

  John Lachs

  Dream, Years, Land

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• I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.

  Janelle Monae

  Black And White, Shoes, Classic

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• Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Ethics, Bases

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). “A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism”

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• The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts. Personally I am beginning to think there is more danger in lagging than in speeding up cultural change to keep pace with mechanical change.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Change, Thinking, Long

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• ...we see God working in terms of Jewish culture to reach Jews, yet, refusing to impose Jewish customs on Gentiles. Instead non-Jews are to come to God and relate to Him in terms of their own cultural vehicles. We see the Bible endorsing, then, a doctrine we call biblical sociocultural adequacy in which each culture is taken seriously but none advocated exclusively as the only one acceptable to God.

  Charles H. Kraft

  Taken, Biblical, Doctrine

  Charles H. Kraft (1996). “Anthropology for Christian Witness”

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• I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.

  Williston Fish

  Children, Yellow, White

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• The slaves of custom and established mode,
  With pack-horse constancy we keep the road
  Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
  True to the jingling of our leader's bells.

  William Cowper

  Horse, Leader, Bells

  William Cowper (1785). “Poetical Works: With Notes and a Memoir”, p.207

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• in America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for the gross and luxurious diet with which they load their tables; and there can be no doubt that the general health of the nation would be increased by a change in our customs in this respect.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Animal, America, Doubt

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.132, Applewood Books

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• Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life was completely unknown. He worked in a customs house and walked off to work as an anonymous person in this American culture.

  Frederic Tuten

  Years, People, House

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice.

  John Ruskin

  Levi's, Peter, Priests

  John Ruskin (1871). “Works. (Author's Ed.)”, p.165

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• Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows, when one visits strange new lands one must be aware of their customs.

  Chris Murray

  Opportunity, Journey, Land

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• Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Hands, Nurse

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.1260, 谷月社

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• Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Soil, Strange, Thrive

  "Demetrius". Book by Friedrich Schiller, I. 1, February 15, 1857.

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• Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Death, Determination, Men

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• I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Past, Habit, Quaint

  "The Handmaid's Tale". Book by Margaret Atwood, 1985.

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• How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Life, Cynical, One Day

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• Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Thinking, Criticize, Conventional

  "Main Street". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1920.

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• Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence.

  Francis Quarles

  Fashion, Eye, Long

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.71

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• An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Ancient, Force, Forces Of Nature

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Inventione, p. 154-55, 1922.

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• Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.

  John Vanbrugh

  Law, Fool

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, Susanna Centlivre (1791). “British Theatre: Bold stroke for a wife”

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