Quotations
- The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. Anthony Trollope
- It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is
James Russell Lowell - Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon - A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits.
Napoleon Bonaparte - Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert Ryle - Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. (Attributed)
Charles Reade - I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that’s habitat destruction.
Steve Irwin - We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle - Winning is a habit.
Leo Durocher - The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day’s time they will have turned it into a Hell.
Jeremy Bentham - A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Kahlil Gibran - Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin - Here is the piece. If you can’t say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
Ernest Hemingway - Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vincent T Lombardi - It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Jawaharlal Nehru - The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fedor Dostoevsky - Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah More - The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle - How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Jack Nicklaus - Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov - It is a curious thing… that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn Waugh - Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.
Douglas Busch - Cocaine isn’t habit forming. I should know – I’ve been using it for years.
Tallulah Bankhead - Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
Norman Mailer - This is about shifting habits and attitudes and asking people to take responsibility for what is in their coffee cup. The bottom line is that if farmers don’t get a fair price for their coffee they will starve.
Claire Goose - All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle - Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon - My problem is reconciling my gross habits with my net income
Errol Flynn - Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia Woolf - I guess it’s better than having a crack habit – on having an internet addiction!
Mark Hamilton - Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
Pope Leo XIII - Things start out as hopes and end up as habits
Lillian Hellman - I’ve got this habit of mooning…I was cautioned for mooning in Ireland.
Lisa Scott Lee - If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Andre Maurois - The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit – this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Mickey Mantle - Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry Miller - ‘I just have no more bad habits to give up.’
Gwyneth Paltrow - My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
Billy Boyd - In the past few years I’ve developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I’m able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.
Dwight Yoakam - Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking
Albert Einstein - Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois - The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville Kleiser - Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vincent T Lombardi - I don’t think I’m an obsessive dieter, but I do maintain good eating habits that are as much as part of me as brushing my teeth in the morning.
Raquel Darrian - No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
Sigmund Freud - "He was a sex junkie with an insatiable habit."
Gay Talese - If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
Hans Bethe - China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese
Charles De Gaulle - Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: ‘You can’t deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.’
Cesare Pavese
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