History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.
Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.
Habit had made the custom.
I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but also as a social custom, it perpetually emerges afresh from the soul of the people.
It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?
It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.
If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? In Africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. Anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression. In America we call it golf.
Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.
Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.
Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
Custom is often only the antiquity of error.
I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal--as we are!
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.