Online report of the Progressive Review. Since 1964, the news while there's still time to do something about it.
September 1, 2014
Word
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down the stairs one step at a time -- Mark Twain.
1 comment:
Capt. America
said...
"Old habits can't be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time"
- Mark Twain
IIRC it's from "Puddn'head Wilson", his antiracist crime novel exploiting the use of fingerprints. I doubt "habit is habit" is a correct quote, but I admit that he may have expressed the metaphor more than once. It's been one of my favorite quotations of MT for decades.
1 comment:
"Old habits can't be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time"
- Mark Twain
IIRC it's from "Puddn'head Wilson", his antiracist crime novel exploiting the use of fingerprints. I doubt "habit is habit" is a correct quote, but I admit that he may have expressed the metaphor more than once. It's been one of my favorite quotations of MT for decades.
Post a Comment