"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."

-Mark Twain: "Pudd'nhead Wilson", 'Calendar for 1894'

Habit

How shall I a habit break?
As you did that habit make.
As you gathered, you must lose;
As you yielded, now refuse.
Thread by thread the strands we twist
Till they bind us, neck and wrist.
Thread by thread the patient hand
Must untwine, ere free we stand.
As we builded, stone by stone,
We must toil, unhelped, alone,
Till the wall is overthrown.

-John Boyle O’Reilly

Poetry Humor
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"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."

-Mark Twain: "Pudd'nhead Wilson", 'Calendar for 1894'

Mark Twain Humor
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"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."

-Feodor Dostoevski

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Sow a Thought, and you reap an Act;
Sow an Act, and you reap a Habit;
Sow a Habit, and you reap a Character;
Sow a Character, and you reap a Destiny.

-Charles Reade

Epigrams
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"Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all."

-Georges Gurdjieff

"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."

-John Dryden

One-Liner And Quotation Humor
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The Habit Poem

I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to
failure.
I am completely at your command.
Half of the things you do you might as well turn
over to me and I will do them - quickly and
correctly.
I am easily managed - you must be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done
and after a few lessons, I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of great people,
and alas, of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine though
I work with the precision of a machine
plus the intelligence of a person.
You may run me for profit or run me for ruin -
it makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me, and
I will place the world at your feet.
Be easy with me and I will destroy you.
Who am I? I am Habit.

Riddles
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“The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

-Marcel Proust

Math Humor
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"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."

-Agatha Christie, Author

Book Humor
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"Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good throughout."

-Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Humor
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"Habit is overcome by habit."

-Joseph Kaines

Of course! Why didn't I think of that myself?

"Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you."

-Elbert Hubbard

Wisdom
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"Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow."

-Yiddish Proverb

"Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice."

-William James