Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

—André Maurois

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

—André Maurois

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

—André Maurois

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

—André Maurois

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity—romantic love and gunpowder.

—André Maurois

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.

—Unknown

How use doth breed a habit in a man!

—William Shakespeare

Nothing is stronger than habit.

—Ovid

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

Good habits result from resisting temptation.

—Ancient Proverb