All MARK TWAIN Quotes about “Habits”

“A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.”
“You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.”
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”
“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.”
“We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.”
“A man may have no bad habits and have worse”
“Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.”
“We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.”

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