People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

— Bacon, Francis

Custom reconciles us to everything.

— Burke, Edmund

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

— Davenport, Charles

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

— Hardy, Thomas

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

— Hazlitt, William

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

— Hill, Aaron

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.

— Hume, David

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

— Mill, John Stuart

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

— Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

— Ovid

Laws are subordinate to custom.

— Plautus, Titus Maccius

Custom is a tyrant.

— Proverb

The empire of custom is most mighty.

— Syrus, Publilius

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

— Twain, Mark

People do more from custom than from reason.

— Unknown, Source

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

— Updike, John