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QUOTES including the word: "custom"

Okot P_Bitek:
  • I do not understand/The way of foreigners/But I do not despise their customs./Why should you despise yours?

    • Gustave Courbet:
  • To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them – in a word, to create a living art – this has been my aim.

    • Thomas Paine:
  • A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.

    • Sinclair Lewis:
  • People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.

    • Gabriela Mistral:
  • Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

    • Maupassant:
  • We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs … of our barbarous ancestors.

    • Rochefoucauld:
  • We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

    • Francis Bacon:
  • People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.