Famous quotes containing the words nasty and/or habits:
“Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates himself for it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers gloryto the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.”
—Walter Lippmann (18891974)