William Godwin Quotes

Custom reconciles us to everything.

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.

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.

The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

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?

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

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

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

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

After awhile you could get used to anything.

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

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

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.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Oh, there's nothing like getting used to things.

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

We're all shocked by new ideas, and we're less shocked when we hear them again. And less shocked when we hear them a third time.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!