“This is a bit more expensive than my previous turbo-Ferrari habit, but not too bad.”

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”

André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer

“Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.”

Harvey Mackay (1932) American businessman and journalist

“Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“Of offering more than what I can deliver,
I have a bad habit, it is true.
But I have to offer more than I can deliver,
To be able to deliver what I do.”

Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist

“Don't be too quick
To break bad habits: better stick,
Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.”

Bret Harte (1836–1902) American author and poet

“Too bad, Matson thought archly, that George Hoffman didn’t discover more planets in more star systems habitable by us, the frail needs of living, sentient, mentating biochemical upright bipeds which we humans are.”

Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) American author

“Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

“There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

“I think the control I had over my work was less than adequate. There was nothing wrong with the good bits in my poems, it’s just that they were packed around with lots and lots of bad bits, and I think that the only way I’ve improved in the last several decades [... ] is that I’ve learned to leave out the bad bits. I’m not sure you do improve beyond that.”

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist