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“Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.”

Men Stuff Habit Mouths Drinking Satisfied Dirty Contracts Tobacco Filthy Chewing Chewing Tobacco

Author:Thomas Jordan Jarvis

“(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation.”

“But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even a taste for it, are tormented by the fear that somehow or other they will one day find themselves drunk, so Isabelle perpetually feared that she might be betrayed into an impulsive act that was destructive to such order as reason had imposed on life. Therefore she was forever running her faculty of analysis over in her mind with the preposterous zeal of an adolescent running a razor over his beardless chin.”

Source: The Thinking Reed

“Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.”

Kind Greater Greatness Habit Drinking Foe Intemperance

Author:Walter Scott

“The major thing that holds you back when you're trying to change a bad habit like eating, smoking, or drinking too much is your belief you are out of control.”

Trying Belief Too Much Habit Eating Majors Drinking Smoking Back When Bad Habits Trying To Change Drinking Too Much

Author:Dan Ariely

“When I first started, I was really nervous. You could hear my voice quiver. So I started drinking a bit and that helped. A lot of entertainers have a few drinks before going onstage and don't overdo it. Me, it turned into a bigger habit. But I stopped that. I was getting older, and I was thinking about my kids. There's enough roadblocks out there without throwing in more yourself.”

Thinking Firsts Enough Kids Bits Voice Habit Drink Bigger Drinking Nervous Throwing Getting Old Getting Older Entertainers Quiver Roadblock

Author:Tim McGraw

“I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.”

Long Has Beens Given Car Habit Long Time Drinking Bars Long Time Ago Stumbling

Author:Carl Andre

“It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical disabilities, but instead of going to the root of our troubles - wrong habits of eating and drinking - we rush to the medicine shelf and smother our uncomfortable and distressing symptoms under an avalanche of pills, potions and palliatives.”

Should Seems Given Causes Trouble Habit Eating Roots Medicine Drinking Medical Uncomfortable Consideration Disability Shelves Symptoms Pills Distressing Avalanches Eating And Drinking

Author:Lester Roloff

“I don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say.”

Sleep Habit Drinking Schedules Playing Music

Author:Norah Jones

“[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.”

Too Much Worst Habit Angry Drinking Drinking Too Much Budweiser

Author:Larry Holmes

“I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Feels Years Made Night Wonder Huge Habit Drinking Stores Uncomfortable Quantity Liquor Paranoid Hangover Clerks Liquor Stores

Author:Charles Bukowski

“A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that s where you want to go. ... The only sermon that counts is the one that is formed by our actions. She would quit drinking and thereby show Kyle life is what you make it. A person can grab hold of her life and change things for the better. This happens all the time. We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.”

Source: Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel