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Habit: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

A civil habit Oft covers a good man.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Beggar's Bush. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 210.

Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth."— CRABBE — The Borough. Letter III.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Rasselas. Ch. XII.

Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.— HANNAH MORE — Florio. Pt. I.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.— OVID — Metamorphoses. Bk. XV. L. 155. Dryden's trans.

Consuetudo quasi altera natura. Habit is, as it were, a second nature.— CICERO — De Finibus Bonorum et

Malorum. V. 25. Consuetudo naturâ potentior est. Habit is stronger than nature.— QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS — De Rebus

Gestis Alexandri Magni. V. 5. 21. Abeunt studia in mores. Pursuits become habits.— OVID — Heroides. XV. 83.

C. Morem fecerat usus. Habit had made the custom.— OVID — Metamorphoses. II. 345.

Nil consuetudine majus. Nothing is stronger than habit.— OVID — Ars Amatoria. II. 345.

Inter pocula. Over their cups.— PERSIUS — Satira. I. 30.

Frangas enim citius quam corrigas quæ in pravum induerunt. Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.— QUINTILIAN — De Institutione Oratoria.

I. 3. 3. Gravissimum est imperium consuetudinis. The power of habit is very strong.— SYRUS — Maxims.

Inepta hæc esse, nos quæ facimus sentio; Verum quid facias? ut homo est, ita morem geras. I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits and dispositions, so one must yield to them.— TERENCE — Adelphi. III. 3. 76.

Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus! How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit.— TERENCE — Heauton-Timoroumenos. IV.