Source: True Grit
“Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.”
“Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.”
“Marriage is fine as an institution, but bad as a habit”
Interview in Motion Picture (October 1921) "Six Interviews with Buster Keaton" http://www.silentera.com/taylorology/issues/Taylor68.txt
“We've gotten into the bad habit of overlegislating.”
I Ain't Got Time To Bleed (1999)
Context: We've gotten into the bad habit of overlegislating. I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
“Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.”
Attributed
“You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!”
“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 6
Context: The registration read: Carmen Sternwood, 3765 Alta Brea Crescent, West Hollywood. I went back to my car again and sat and sat. The top dripped on my knees and my stomach burned from the whiskey. No more cars came up the hill. No lights went on in the house before which I was parked. It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
