But slippery fashion goes its wandering round, and all men are in haste to discard usages which have been tried.
——— Sed lubricus errat
mos et ab expertis festinant usibus omnes.
mos et ab expertis festinant usibus omnes.
Original text (Latin)
Notes from Wikiquote
Qtd. as an epigraph in John Evelyn, Tyrannus, or, The Mode, 2nd ed. (London: G. Bedel, and T. Collins, ... and J. Crook), title-page, with the variant error for errat: reproduced in Memoirs, 2nd ed., vol. 2 (London: Henry Colburn, 1819), p. 309