Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Habit Quotes

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and...

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and...

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a...

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a...

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the...

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the...

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those...

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those...

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing...

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing...

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed...

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed...

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a...

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a...

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive,...

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive,...

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the...

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from...

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise...

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise...

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion...

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion...

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put...

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put...

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes,...

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes,...

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent;...

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent;...

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in...

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in...

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in...

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in...