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Habit Quotes - Page 18

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.113, Psychology Press

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Economics”, p.13, Aeterna Press

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Alistair Cooke (2015). “Talk About America: 1951–1968”, p.39, Open Road Media

Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.158

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.341, Oxford University Press on Demand

London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

William Sansom (1961). “Blue Skies, Brown Studies”

Habit is necessary to give power.

William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.432

The only habits you never conquer are the ones you put off doing something about.

Wess Roberts (1992). “Straight A's Never Made Anybody Rich: Lessons in Personal Achievement”, Harper Perennial

From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.160, Diversion Books

A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.

"Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art". Book by T. E. Hulme, 1924.