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• Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. -- Moritz Guedema
• Pardon him, Theodotus, he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! -- G.B. Shaw
• Packet held up at customs.
• He sees that this great roundabout The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses, Is no concern at all of his, And says--what says he?
  Caw. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Jackdaw, (Translation from Vincent Bourne)...
• According to the ceremonial customs of Orthodox Judaism, it is officially sundown when you cannot tell the difference between a black thread and a red one.
• A pilgrim returning from Lourdes tried to sneak an extra bottle of gin through customs, but was stopped by an official.
  "What's in that bottle?" he asked. "It's holy water from Lourdes....
• Willy: {Spill it! Where's your brother?} Skinner: {You'd better answer him, Lisa.
  He's a bad man. [Lisa giggles] What are you laughing about?...
• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...