Famous quotes containing the words tells and/or james:
“These examples, though foreign to us, are not strange, if we consider, as our experience often tells us, how custom dulls the senses.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.”
—William James (1843–1916)