Sociology is not a system of fads and reforms.

Truth and simplicity of life are not mere fads; they are something more than abstractions and private affairs, something more than social ornaments.

"Our Opposition is coming forward with a foolish program of fads and fancies.

We have no fears of the fads and fancies put forward by short-haired women and long-haired men.

Such fads are not to be encouraged in one's youth.

I'm done with your fads, and your wild-eyed lads.

Established customs do not readily give way to fads and freaks.

There was also a widespread interest in "politics," by which was meant the particular fads cherished by one's own caucus to the exclusion of the nation's affairs, it being more or less understood that the army, the navy, and foreign policy were not to be made political questions.

The trouble began as a result of one of the elements in the American Constitution which was the product not of the sound common sense and the lofty judgment of the framers, but of a weak yielding to one of the doctrinaire fads of the time that had no relationship to life but was the invention of political theorists, and that was the unnatural separation of the executive, legislative and judicial functions of government.

A fine figure, haughty airs, caprices, fashionable jargon, fantasies, and fads, that is all that is required of her.

They had not merely swallowed wholesale the latest and most extreme political and social fads, picked up from the literature of England, France, and Germany, but they possessed a courage of their convictions and a will to carry them out to the logical conclusion which many "advanced thinkers" of the West lack.

Men of all parties and temperaments, the choleric, the phlegmatic, monarchists, anarchists, clericals, Calvinists, suddenly forgot their everyday selves, their passions, their fads and their antipathies,shed their skins.

It has always been Mr. Tinne's principle to aim at producing the best terrier he could, irrespective of the fads of this kennel or that, and his judgment has been amply vindicated, as the prize lists of every large show will testify.

" They sat, discussing things of the theatre, tendencies in drama, fashions and fads, Gordon Craig's book, the Rheinhardt idea.

Upon the Limerick craze itself, I fear Dr. Horton will not have much effect; such fads perish before one has had time to kill them.

The point of modern newspapers is that there is no such corporate body and common aim; but each man can use the authority of the paper to further his own private fads and his own private finances.

I was as covered with "fads" as a distinguished foreigner with stars.

Reginald T. Townsend (A); 10Jan55; R142754. Fads and fancies.

Fancies versus fads.

He was an excellent judge of humanity, and so good a historian, that in familiar conversation, he would talk over the most memorable fads in antiquity; the lives, actions, and characters of celebrated men, with amazing facility and accuracy.

Every one's equal rights were regarded, every one's special talents were stimulated, every one's peculiar fads or foibles were genially borne with.

He had no cant and no hypocrisy, no pose and no fads.

I was as covered with "fads" as a distinguished foreigner with stars.

why, he's so full of fads he won't trust anybody, and nothing ever suits him.

"The very mistake his father made!" "Homoeopathy is one of my fads, remember.