HABIT QUOTES
quotations about habit
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Habit is a great swamp wherein men are turned to fossils.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
Everybody's got a habit.
LILLIAN HELLMAN, Days to Come
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams
Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that's where you want to go.... We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.
GARRISON KEILLOR, Pontoon
It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! the root of error.
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters, and Reflections
It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.
JEROME K. JEROME, "A Man of Habit"
- Most men are prisoners at best,
- Who some strong habit every drag about
- Like chain and ball.
HENRY ABBEY, "The Galley Slave"
- Habit is a cruel jailer
- Yet how well-beloved.
NELLIE SEELYE EVANS, "Habit"
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
When habit clutches a man he becomes a limp mass of nerveless meat.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.
Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Habits are either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
CROFT M. PENTZ, The Complete Book of Zingers
Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
Habit, like a fog, tends to palliate things and beings. Little by little it obscures the features of a face and rubs down deformities; if you live with a humpback day in and day out, after a time he loses his hump.
OCTAVE MIRBEAU, The Diary of a Chambermaid
Habit will reconcile us to everything but change.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
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