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| A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept. | 1 |
| A cake and a bad custom ought to be broken. French. | 2 |
| Bad customs are better broken than kept up. | 3 |
| Be a custom good or bad a peasant will have it continue in force. Spanish. | 4 |
| Break the legs of an evil custom (or habit). | 5 |
| Conform to common custom and not to common folly. | 6 |
Custom does often reason overrule,
And only serves for reason to the fool. Rochester. | 7 |
| Custom in infancy becomes nature in old age. | 8 |
| Custom is second nature. Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch. | 9 |
| Custom is the guide of the ignorant. | 10 |
| Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools. | 11 |
| Custom makes all things easy. | 12 |
| Custom without reason is but an ancient error. | 13 |
| Every country has its custom. Spanish. | 14 |
| Every land has its own custom, every wheel its own spindle. Portuguese. | 15 |
| Follow the customs or fly the country. Danish. | 16 |
| How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom. Terence. | 17 |
| In each country, its custom. Don Quixote. | 18 |
It is a custom
More honored in the breach than the observance. Shakespeare. | 19 |
| National customs are national honors. Danish. | 20 |
| Old custom without truth is but an old error. | 21 |
| Once an use and ever a custom. | 22 |
| Once is no custom. French, Dutch. | 23 |
| So many countries, so many customs. Italian, German. | 24 |
| The empire of custom is most mighty. Publius Syrus. | 25 |
| Tyrant custom makes a slave of reason. | 26 |
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