Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
- Woody AllenEvery 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.
- Hermann HesseWithout tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- Winston ChurchillOften, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
- Mark TwainTradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
- G.K. ChestertonTradition is an explanation for acting without thinking
- Grace McGarvieTradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
- Jose BergaminWhat an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it
- Thomas CarlyleTradition is a guide and not a jailer
- William Somerset Maugham