Alexander Pushkin Quotes

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

The empire of custom is most mighty.

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

Habit had made the custom.

Custom is almost a second nature.

Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

Custom doth make dotards of us all.

Sometimes we do things a certain way just because that is the way we do things.

I've been swinging the same way since I was born. It's always worked.

I'm creature of habit.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.

A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.

The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance,--habit, which makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from the wonted course.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.