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"Never be afraid to try something new remember amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic." »Unknown
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"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." »Harry S Truman
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"Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room." »William Hazlitt
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"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety." »William Shakespeare
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"Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth." »Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety." »William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2
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"Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses." »H.H. Munro (Saki)
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"Custom is the great guide of human life." »David Hume
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"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent." »Lady Nancy Astor
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"But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance." »William Shakespeare
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"But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance." »William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
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"The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE." »Author Unknown, (apocryphal)
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"Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." »Jorge Luis Borges
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"Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies." »William Shakespeare
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"If ever a man could have felt the church to be unnecessary, he was Jesus. Yet he did not stay away form the church of his day. It was his custom to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and he made many trips to the temple." »R. Brokhoff
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"You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more." »Oprah Winfrey
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"I have built my organization upon fear." »Al Capone
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"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." »Louise Nevelson
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"Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough." »Unknown
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"Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long." »Homer
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"Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment." »Mark Twain
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"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." »Grace Murray Hopper
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." »Henry David Thoreau
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"An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications." »John Herro
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"Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had." »Francis Bacon
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"A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." »William Shedd
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"Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had." »Sir Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Building, 1623
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"If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures." »Author Unknown
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." »George Bernard Shaw
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