Women hope men will change after marriage, but they don't; men hope women won't change, but they do.
—Bettina Arndt
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
—Horace Mann
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread.But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought.
—Albert Schweitzer
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
—Lillian Hellman
I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
—W. C. Fields
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
—Peter Ustinov
Winning is a habit.
—Leo Durocher
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
—Errol Flynn
I have learned that no matter how much I learn about anything, I am always at 'the threshold of ignorance,' a frontier of inner and outer awareness (and lack of it) in which some things have become second nature, some things are new and a little uncomfortable, and some things are a complete mystery.
—Rich Frye
When a poor man knocks at your door and says, "I'm hungry," and your first thought is Why can't you get a job?, you've invaded his privacy. Why would you need to know why he can't get a job? He didn't come to discuss his inabilities or bad habits; he came to discuss his hunger. If you want to do something about it, feed him.
—Rabbi Manis Friedman
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future. But we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D. H. Lawrence
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
—W. Somerset Maugham
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
—Blaise Pascal
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
—Vince Lombardi
The most effective instrument to overcome one's laziness in work is the force of habit.
—Carl Hilty