When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. - Logan Pearsall Smith
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by man, but coaxed downstairs, a step at a time. - Mark Twain
Upstairs, in the cupboard, he had a box of things he had saved as a boy and a young man. He hadn't looked into it in twenty years or more. Nothing fancy or valuable, but things that had meant something to him at one time. He found it, and found the key, and carried it downstairs without opening it. - Jane Smiley
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain