Quotes by Customs Laws are subordinate to custom. Plautus customs subordinates law The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood. Quintus Ennius customs ancient states The empire of custom is most mighty. Publilius Syrus customs empires Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom. Robert E. Howard customs mazes civilization It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers. Robert Wilson Lynd customs expenses praise It is not the custom of kings to kill kings. Saladin customs kings Custom is second nature. Saint Augustine customs Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. Samuel Daniel customs law art Custom adapts itself to expediency. Tacitus expediency customs habit How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom? Terence customs unjust justice Custom without truth is error grown old. Tertullian customs truth-is errors Custom doth make dotards of us all. Thomas Carlyle customs What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom? Thomas Carlyle customs battle philosophy Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. Walter Savage Landor absurdity customs proportion Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will. William Shakespeare customs shame human-nature The breach of custom William Shakespeare breach customs Nice customs curtsy to great kings. William Shakespeare customs nice kings «123