Customary Practice

Famous quotes containing the words customary and/or practice:

    It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)