Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Custom

A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
—John Ray (Handbook of Proverbs, 1670)

Old customs are as the blossoms on the tree of a nation’s life; and, when they wither and fall off, death and carnage are at the roots.
—Anonymous