Quotes About Routine

I listen to my iPod as I walk on. If I'm winning I'll listen to the same song, that's like a good luck thing - usually The Black Eyed Peas' Let's Get It Started.

At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.

The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little.

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

You might try doing what my folks did. Twice a week they would go out for a special meal. . . with wine good food and soft lighting. Dad took Tuesday and Mom took Thursday.

A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alone with one's husband but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination.

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.