Quotes About Old Customs

#1. A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

Friedrich Schiller

#2. Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.

Clarence Darrow

#3. Have you really become so much an Angrezi that you believe your people have only to say "It is forbidden", for such old customs as this to cease immediately? Bah!

M.M. Kaye

#4. I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.

Czeslaw Milosz

#5. 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

#6. The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.

Walter Bagehot

#7. One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break ... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.

Amelia Earhart

#8. The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

Aeschylus

#9. You will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.

Gore Vidal

#10. Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.

Confucius

#11. When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#12. Custom without truth is error grown old.

Tertullian

#13. So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. My unrealized ambition is to tend my vines, produce wine, and work like an artisan. I dream of rediscovering the old traditions and customs of wine growing, not necessarily to deny the technology which we have today, but to harness it and work in harmony with nature.

Gerard Depardieu

#15. That last voice in his head.
It hadn't been Billy's.
It was his own.

Barry Lyga

#16. We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs ... of our barbarous ancestors.

Guy De Maupassant

#17. St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis.

Andy Cohen

#18. New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new only to a few stupid Englishmen a hundred and fifty years behind the times.

Edward Pearson Pressey

#19. Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

Tabatha Coffey

#20. The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

Charlie Munger

#21. Preserve the spirit of a 'lost' age, when time moved slower.

Fennel Hudson

#22. Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.

Anne Tyler

#23. It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.

Lisa Kleypas

#24. I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff. That's what I want to do. It means creatively, that's what I want so I need to do that for myself and then I'll see.

Avril Lavigne

#25. The job of the financial journalist was to examine the sharks who created interest crises and speculated away the savings of small investors, to scrutinize company boards with the same merciless zeal.

Stieg Larsson

#26. Style is an attitude; a trend is just another thing to follow.

Lela Rose

#27. They took over from the old order not only most of its customs, conventions, and modes of thought, but even those ideas which prompted our revolutionaries to destroy it; that, in fact, though nothing was further from their intentions, they used the debris of the old order for building up the new.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#28. Pictures were made to entertain; if you want to send a message, call Western Union.

Samuel Goldwyn

#29. If in other respects the old condition of things be continued, and there be no discordance in their customs, men live peaceably with one another ...

Niccolo Machiavelli

#30. I always spend too much time on getting the details right. That's the problem with computers. They make it possible to change too much of the music after it's been recorded.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom