There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

You must not refuse any additional cups of tea under the following circumstances: if it is hot; if it is cold; if you are tired; if anybody thinks that you might be tired; if you are nervous; if you are gay; before you go out; if you are out; if you have just returned home; if you feel like it; if you do not feel like it; if you have had no tea for some time; if you have just had a cup.

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

Custom is a second law.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

Custom determines what is agreeable.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

Custom makes all things easy.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence to superhuman powers, to remember the courtesies and obligations of family, to pay homage to certain sacred plants, or to avoid particular places.

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat blind as to things that are to come.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.