Judith Martin Quotes

Where a bad custom has been in existence for any length of time, most people grow to regard it as part of the order of nature.

Custom is second nature.

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

Custom is almost a second nature.

Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.

Habit had made the custom.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

What is familiar tends to become a value.

Oh, yeah, I'm all about ritual.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

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

I do love the idea of ritual.

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

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

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

Action requires co-operation, but in general if you set your face against custom, people will set their faces against you. They cannot tell whether you are right or wrong, but they know that you are guilty of a pragmatical assumption of superiority over them which they do not like.

Custom is our nature …

I'm creature of habit.