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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

History

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

To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Custom

Will

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

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

John Stuart Mill

Custom

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.

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

Custom

Prophecy

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

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

Adam Jones

Custom

Custom is the great guide to human life.

David Hume

Life

Custom

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

William Hazlitt

Custom

Prejudice

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.