Quotes Tagged With :customs

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none;....

But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing....

Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them.""They do. You....

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial,....

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it....

Kashayam [was] a drink the vanaras had morning, noon and night, and a few times in between. It was a....

You gotta look backwards to go forwards.

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate....

Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different....

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns....