Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
Felix Adler

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Walter Lippmann

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
William Temple

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
William Robertson Smith

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
John Acton

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
Marcus V. Pollio

Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
Lord Chesterfield

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise Pascal

Custom is second nature.
Saint Aurelius Augustine

Custom is the great guide to human life.
David Hume

Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
Samuel Daniel

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
Charles Davenport

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.
Jack Dee

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
Adam Jones

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.
Lewis Tappan

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell

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

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
Alfred Russel Wallace