<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Custom - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10890]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient custom has the force of law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient custom has the force of law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old ways are the safest and surest ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old ways are the safest and surest ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10899]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10882]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10884]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom is the great guide to human life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom is the great guide to human life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom adapts itself to expediency ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom adapts itself to expediency]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10888</guid></item></channel></rss>