George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?

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

After awhile you could get used to anything.

the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

That's the problem, we do get used to things.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

The most insane things can become normal if you have them around you long enough. A mind can’t seem to hold anything too crazy for too long without finding a way to make it seem normal.

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees them accepted by everyone around him.

… there isn’t anything you can’t stand if you are only born and bred to it..

Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

It's really amazing how the human mind and body can adapt to new environments. How the once incredible can become so normal.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.