Top 51 Accustom Quotes
#1. The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great caution is to be used, that you do not make too much haste, nor attempt this cure too early, for fear lest you increase the mischief instead of remedying it.
John Locke
#2. Whether you reed or rite, accustom yourselves to stand at a high desk
Noah Webster
#3. Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
John Berger
#4. If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace.
Boris Johnson
#5. It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
Grenville Kleiser
#6. hardly any ruler lives so long as to have time to accustom to right methods a city which has long been accustomed to wrong. Wherefore,
Niccolo Machiavelli
#7. Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
John Locke
#8. Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.
Seneca The Younger
#9. Soon the mercilessly even drumbeat fill'd the Day, replacing the accustom'd rhythms of country People with the controlling Pulse of military Clock-Time, announcing that all events would now occur at the army's Pleasure, upon the army's schedule.
Thomas Pynchon
#10. Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Teresa Of Avila
#11. Nothing comes at all
never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay.
Octave Mirbeau
#12. The ancients have left us model heroic poems in which the heroes furnish the whole interest of the story, and we are still unable to accustom ourselves to the fact that for our epoch histories of that kind are meaningless.
Leo Tolstoy
#13. Do not be a people without a will of your own saying: If others treat well you will also treat well and if they do wrong we will do wrong; but accustom yourselves to do good if people do good and do not do wrong if they do evil.
Anonymous
#14. The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
William Cowper
#15. Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end
Samuel Johnson
#16. Frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom themselves to me.
Jonathan Swift
#17. Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
Oscar Wilde
#19. Study your prey, learn her habits, accustom her to your presence by seeming harmless and kind. And then, when she is tame and off-guard, you pounce!
Mary Hoffman
#20. Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
Francois Fenelon
#21. We are in here not to correct the deformation but to accustom ourselves to it:
Haruki Murakami
#22. It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.
C.A. Dawson Scott
#23. We will train both mind and body when we accustom ourselves to cold, heat, thirst, hunger, scarcity of food, hardness of bed, abstaining from pleasures, and enduring pains
Anonymous
#24. Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
Pliny The Elder
#25. Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.
Marcus Aurelius
#26. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus Aurelius
#27. Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
Samuel Johnson
#28. People are so accustom to dysfunction that they forget what's healthy and what's not.
Alexandra Elle
#29. Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson
#30. Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex rather than the real.
Virginie Despentes
#31. Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
Mignon McLaughlin
#32. To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition.
Jean Piaget
#33. You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess, of chess culture.
Mikhail Botvinnik
#35. Accustom yourself to unreasonableness and injustice. Abide in peace in the presence of God Who sees all these evils more clearly than you do, and Who permits them. Be content with doing with calmness the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were naught.
Francois Fenelon
#36. Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens; if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.
Francois Fenelon
#37. My father, who educated his children on worldly principles, gave us much money, considering our age; not in order that we might spend it, but, as he said, to accustom us to possess money without spending it. The result was, that it led me and my brother into many sins.
George Muller
#38. Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.
Thomas Paine
#39. A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.
Francois Fenelon
#41. To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
Seneca The Younger
#42. We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.
Blaise Pascal
#43. The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
Alexander Pope
#44. Much which is unworthy in human life might be avoided if people would only accustom themselves to talking in verse
Karen Blixen
#45. Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.
Epictetus
#48. Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning will secure us for all the day.
Stephen Charnock
#49. I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well
Oscar Wilde
#50. As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
John Lancaster Spalding
#51. They insist upon the shaving of the moustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.
Plutarch
