womananna.blogg.se - Define habits of goodness

We are bagged in habit like clothes back from the cleaners -Marge PiercyĬollins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012 habit.Using drugs like table salt -Jimmy Breslin.Used to it, like a wart -Jonathan Kellerman.Take for granted, like running water -Anon.Shook my wild habits from me … like a worn-out cloak -O.Set in one’s way, as elderly apple trees -Allison Lurie.Set in his ways as a chunk of concrete -F.Kept on along the narrow track of habit, like a traveler climbing a road in a fog -Edith Wharton.The habit (of command) was already fitting him like a tailored suit -Ken Follett.

(All will be well, we say it is) a habit, like the rising of the sun -Edna St.

Habit, like a crane, will bow its neck and dip its pulleyed cable, gathering me … into the daylight -Harold Monro.

(I like to) go tick-ticking along like a clock -Edith Wharton.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come -Alighieri Dante.

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed easy to get into, but hard to get out of -Rev.

The word ‘custom’ is often interchanged with ‘habit.’

A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept -Randle Cotgrave.

As the snow flakes gather, so our habits are formed -Jeremy Bentham.

An annoying habit … like the habit of people who take nonfattening sweeteners in their coffee, and order chocolate mousse -Marilyn Sharp.See Also: BEHAVIOR, FLEXIBILITY/INFLEXIBILITY