94 Quotes About Customs

... taking some precautions may attract unwanted attention and scrutiny, even if the precautions otherwise succeed in protecting your information. For example, if detected by a border agent, the fact that you wiped your hard drive may prompt the agent to ask why you did so. Even traveling without devices or data that most travelers typically have could attract suspicion and questions.

A foreigner should consider practicing other countries' customs, manners, and etiquette before visiting the country.

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

We are our culture and tradition; if there is no culture or tradition we are no one" - Tamerlan Kuzgov.

In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker explained.

But a favor has to be answered by another favor, and the courtesies became a chain that imprisoned us.

Simply repeating customs and adopting past traditions are the preserves of the lazy and the unimaginative.

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.

Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.