Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Habits

• Habit is the most imperious of all masters.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Habit, Masters

• Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Running, Looks

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 246, 1998.

• Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Healthy Habits, Comfort

• It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Missing, Habit, Trifling

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.726, Delphi Classics

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