Custom calls me to’t.
What custom wills, in all things should we do’t,
The dust on antique time would lie unswept,
And mountainous error be too highly heaped
For truth to o’erpeer.
William Shakespeare (Coriolanus 2:iii)
Custom is our nature…. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? Blaise Pascal
Custom reconciles us to everything. Edmund Burke
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. Walter Lippmann
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. John Stuart Mill
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. William Hazlitt
The best interpreter of the law is custom. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always. Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu
All men are partially buried in the grave of custom. Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is stronger than custom. Ovid
How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom! Terence