By dinnertime, Amanda had managed to pick off all of her red nail polish purely out of habit. She was disappointed and silently cursed at herself when she remembered not having anymore to put on. She stared at her fingernails for about twenty minutes for lack of something better to do.
~ Jason Medina
His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.
~ Albert Camus
A precedent embalms a principle.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths but he has not been able to destroy them.
~ Octavio Paz
Custom is second nature and no less powerful.
~ Michel Eyquem Montaigne
Custom reconciles us to everything.
~ Edmund Burke
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Habit is a great deadener.
~ Samuel Beckett
Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
~ Mark Twain
Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice it is merely custom.
He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice.
~ John Stuart Mill
In some remote regions of Islam it is said a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.
~ Raymond Mortimer
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.
~ Thomas Carlyle
It is well to lie fallow for a while.
~ Martin F. Tupper
She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
~ Gertrude Stein
The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.
The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.
~ Nathaniel Howe
There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
~ George Santayana
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.
~ Harold Macmillan
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Custom that unwritten law By which the people keep even kings in awe.
~ Charles Davenport
Habit is stronger than reason.
Laws are never as effective as habits.
~ Adlai Stevenson
Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pass slowly while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.
~ Thomas Mann
The gnarled fidelity of an old habit.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Habit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding or regretting of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.
~ William James
Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
~ Henry Adams
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
~ Lady Astor
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
~ Samuel Johnson
When you are accustomed to anything you are estranged from it.
~ George Cabot Lodge
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
~ Seamus Heaney
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
~ Drew Barrymore
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
~ Vince Lombardi
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
For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
~ Juliette Binoche
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
