Age Quote by Honore de Balzac

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

— Austin O'Malley

“For many generations…they obeyed the laws and loved the divine to which they were akin…they reckoned that qualities of character were far more important…

— Plato

Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only…

— Abraham Lincoln

Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with…

— Thomas Huxley

“...the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller,…

— Thomas Hardy

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

— Jeremy Taylor

“Everything goes. But the one thing that separates human beings from animals is a nobility of spirit, a sense of self-worth. I have ideals.…

— Diana Palmer

“By reason of his species and his manners, the peasant comes below the pig. He finds moral life profoundly repugnant. If by chance he…

— Eduardo Galeano

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

— Winston Churchill

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape…

— Anonymous

Habits are qualities of the soul.

— Ibn Khaldun

“Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity…

— George Orwell