The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. – George Bernard Shaw

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. – George Bernard Shaw

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. – Mark Twain, 1907, letter to Harriet E. Whitmore

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause. – Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil