“Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.”
Jacques Barzun
“Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.”
Oscar Wilde
“So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.”
Raymond Chandler
“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”
Caskie Stinnett
“The less routine the more life.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
“Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.”
Arthur Helps