Perches/habits

Famous quotes containing the words perches and/or habits:

“What is this conversation, now secular,
A speech not mine yet speaking for me in
The heaving jelly of my tribal air?
It rises in the throat, it climbs the tongue,
It perches there for secret tutelage....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)