One might call habit ordsprog

en One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

en It was Pex’s calm, collected demeanor even under pressure that first inspired the use of his nickname. True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
  Jean Cocteau

en True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
  Jean Cocteau

en Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
  Francis Bacon

en The mind attaches itself by idleness and habit to whatever is easy or pleasant. This habit always places bounds to our knowledge, and no one has ever yet taken the pains to enlarge and expand his mind to the full extent of its capacities.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort
  Christopher Morley

en You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
  William Blake

en Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments
  Marcel Proust

en When you have a small object traveling at an incredibly high velocity, slamming into the earth's atmosphere, the friction makes the speeding object heat up so much that it can internally fracture and turn into what we call a fireball,

en It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
  William Shakespeare

en The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.
  Joseph Conrad

en Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
  William Somerset Maugham

en Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor: For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit
  William Shakespeare

en Old habit of mind is one of the toughest things to get away from in the world. It transmits itself like physical form and feature . . .
  Mark Twain

en The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole.
  Albert Pike


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