Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene DescartesGrowing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre MauroisI've got this habit of mooning...I was cautioned for mooning in Ireland.
Lisa Scott LeeNothing is stronger than habit.
OvidI am about to write a very curious history, as the reader will agree with me when he has read this book. We have more than one narrative of people being cast away upon desolate islands, and being left to their own resources, and no works are perhaps read with more interest; but I believe I am the first instance of a boy being left alone upon an uninhabited island. Such was, however, the case; and now I shall tell my own story
Frederick MarryatAn unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W Somerset MaughamWhy does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra StreisandAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
AristotleGenius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah MoreThe habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.
Bruce ArcherWhy should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William JamesThe best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
Leo AikmanCharacter is simply habit long continued.
PlutarchI am not a politician, and my other habits are good.
Charles Farrar BrowneHe must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
Anthony TrollopeThe creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Henry MooreThe habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
Walter BagehotOne has to be wary of the fact that memories have a habit of warping themselves into what you want them to be.
David GerroldYouth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit
Duc De La RochefoucauldThe demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
Matt BluntWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
AristotleIn the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits
Robert HallLiterature 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"He was a sex junkie with an insatiable habit."
Gay TaleseI 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 DarrianTo limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves
Claude Arien HelvetiusPhilosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert RyleWinning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vincent T LombardiPleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. (The Habit of Loving)
Doris LessingFear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
TacitusThe conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Edward BernaysI never criticise referees and I'm not going to change a habit for that prat.
Ron AtkinsonHabit is the deepest law of human nature.
Thomas CarlyleI really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Vaclav HavelSalamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.
Ambrose BierceEach year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin FranklinA large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.
William PaleySow 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 ReadeMen disgust me if they don't have a nice smile, nice lips and nice teeth. They have too many disgusting habits, like scratching themselves all the time.
Jennifer LopezHabit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Edith WhartonUnprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward GibbonAnd .I never said I disliked Paul's playing; I just disliked Paul as a young man that had some crazy habits.
Dave BrubeckSmall habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah MoreLaws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai E StevensonMoral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Plutarch'I just have no more bad habits to give up.'
Gwyneth PaltrowIt is curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is
James Russell LowellMy worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
Billy BoydLove is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
AristotleI guess it's better than having a crack habit - on having an internet addiction!
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