[S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature.
– Will Durant
Related Quotes:
- Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. – George Bernard Shaw
- When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
- [W]orship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear. – Will Durant
- Nature is powerful and beautiful,Nature is destructive and creative,Nature is amazing and wonderful,Nature is loving and graceful. – Debasish Mridha
- Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
- Don’t put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. – Carolyn Byers Ruch
- There’s a fine line between child-like -“ learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff -“ and being child-ish. – Robin Hoyle
- Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. – Ann Douglas
- People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them. – Joe Newman
- The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. – Cecil B DeMille
- The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred. – Franz Kafka
- Friends don’t come ready-made or one-size-fits-all. True friends are always custom fit and one-of-a-kind-¦just for you. – Toni Sorenson
- I had a love affair with life, and as is the custom, I will lose, but will regain a greater love with my heavenly Father. – Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds
- Spirituality is conversation with God, everything else is just religious custom. – Stefan Emunds
- What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. – Oscar Wilde
- As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy? – Stephen Richards
- It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time…when I knew words would be my life’s work – Margaret Edson
- But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune. – Zo Heller
- So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom. – Mary Norris
- I’m off the rails, tipping the scales, following the trail, delving into my own custom made form of outer space. – Angel MB Chadwick
- Haemon: No city is property of a single man.Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.Haemon: You’d rule a desert beautifully alone. – Sophocles
- Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us. – Richard Paul Evans
- I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered. – Theodore Roosevelt
- when a women beget a child , she does not remain a women any further rather became holy by nature and worth worshiping… – Vivek Verma
- People Ignore, People Hurt, People Confuse. But, Nature Talks, Nature Heals, Nature Answers. – AbdurRehman Qadeer
- Nature is the reality, diverging from the nature counts runny from the truth, live on nature, walk under trustworthness – Wilson M Mukama
- Nature understands you more than you understand nature. Nature is your true mother. – Debasish Mridha
- It seems everything in nature that has beauty, also has a price.Let the value of our planets wildlife be to nature and nature alone. – Paul Oxton
- Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. – Will Durant
- No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past. – Will Durant
- Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things. – Will Durant
- History is an excellent teacher with few pupils. – Will Durant
- [V]irtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history. – Will Durant
- The family is the nucleus of civilization. – Will Durant
- The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past. – Will Durant
- Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one. – Will Durant
- The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history. – Will Durant
- but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak. – Will Durant