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"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."
-Anon.
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
-Agatha Christie
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
-Jean Cocteau
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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
-Norman Cousins
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"Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you."
-Frank Crane, Essays
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.
-John Dewey
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"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
-John Dryden
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"Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing."
-Holbrook Jackson, Platitudes in the Making
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"Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy."
-Henri de Lubac, Paradoxes
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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.
-Horace Mann
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb
May look wrinkled and wet
And withered, and white as the snow,
But the taste of a thumb
Is the sweetest taste yet
(As only we thumb-sucker's know).
-Shel Silverstein
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Laws are never as effective as habits.
-Adlai Stevenson
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
-Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.
-Mark Twain, 70th birthday speech
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To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times.
There is no primary or authoritative source for this in Twain's known writings or speeches.
-Mark Twain, attibuted
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Books about Habits
