Quotes by Updike, John

Sex is like money; only too much is enough. >>

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a >>

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me al >>

Quotations about Custom

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human >>

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. >>

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder i >>

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

Updike, John