Quotes
Quotes about Habit
Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this."
Habit is a second nature.
Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),
Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;
Who loving novels, full of affectation,
Receive the manners of each other nation.
A man may have no bad habits and have worse.
Behaviorism is the art of pulling habits out of rats.
If you do not consciously form good habits, you will unconsciously form bad ones.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Behaviorism is the art of pulling habits out of rats.
Laziness is no more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
You can always get a good book out of a bad habit.
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
Cocaine isn't habit-forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. - Epidemics.
The Raven and the Swan A raven saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan's splendid white color arose from his washing in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the neighborhood where he picked up his living, and took up residence in the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished. Change of habit cannot alter Nature.
The Widow and Her Little Maidens A widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.
Weak withering age no rigid law forbids. With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm, The sapless habit daily to bedew, And give the hesitating wheels of life Gliblier to play.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
