(592 quotes found)
“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
“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”
Caskie Stinnett
“The less routine the more life.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
“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
“Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.”
Ben Nicholas
“Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.”
Arthur Helps
“Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.”
Henri de Lubac
“Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly”
George Eliot
“The only routine with me is no routine at all.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
