
“Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.”
“Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.”
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“Good habits are here more effectual than good laws elsewhere.”
…ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges. [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/tacitus-germ-latin.html#19]
End of chapter 19, http://www.unrv.com/tacitus/tacitus-germania-5.php
Germania (98)
“William Carlos Williams”, p. 216
Poetry and the Age (1953)
“This is a bit more expensive than my previous turbo-Ferrari habit, but not too bad.”
On spending $2 million on building rockets, Quoted in "Carmack's Jet Vanes" http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.policy/msg/04e3682944fbcc74?hl=en (2004-05-13)