Famous Quotes - Tags - Habit

  • Certes, they been lyk to houndes, for an hound whan he comth by the roser, or by other bushes,... More
  • Custom is our nature.... What are our natural principles but principles of custom? More
  • Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy. More
  • Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves
    To spend his time in his accustomed art. More
  • Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I... More
  • Habit is the ballast that chains a dog to his vomit. More
  • Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone... More
  • Habit with him was all the test of truth,
    It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth. More
  • Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after... More
  • Habits become nature. More
  • Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep... More
  • I had most need of blessing, and “Amen”
    Stuck in my throat.
    The point is that you... More
  • I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth,
    forgone all custom of exercise. More
  • I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I... More
  • It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of... More
  • It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten... More
  • Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you. More
  • Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. More
  • One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things... More
  • One will seldom go wrong in attributing extreme actions to vanity, moderate ones to habit, and... More
  • Parents fear lest the natural love of their children may fade away. What kind of nature is that... More
  • Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. More
  • Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes. More
  • The only ones who are really grateful for the war are the wild ducks, such a lot of them in the... More
  • The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but... More
  • The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity. More
  • The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which... More
  • There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold. More
  • To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. More
  • To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. More
  • Use almost can change the stamp of nature. More
  • Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as... More

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