"One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it."

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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade."

Anthony Trollope, English Author

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"In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!"

Edmund Husserl, German Philosopher

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"I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside."

Stuart Chase, American Writer

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"There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that."

Josh Duhamel, American Actor

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"Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have."

Rene Descartes, French Mathematician

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"A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them."

Frank Howard Clark, American Writer

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"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet

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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

"The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade."

"In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!"

"I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside."

"There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that."

"Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have."

"A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them."

"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."

Explore more quotes by Helen Hayes

"There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in."

"Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does."

"Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline."

"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."

"The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life."

"If you rest, you rust."

"I cry out for order and find it only in art."

"Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness."

"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."

"Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end."