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A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
— Samuel Johnson
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.
— Honore De Balzac
Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.
— Joseph Addison
In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.
— Henry David Thoreau
The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.
— Pope Pius XII
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
— Charles Caleb Colton
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
— George Eliot
Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.
— Otto Von Bismarck
When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.
— John Wooden
The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.
— Thomas Jefferson
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
— Harold Macmillan
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
— Elbert Hubbard
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
— William James
Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull.
— Murray Rothbard
I believe in something that I do not yet understand.
— Sharman Apt Russell
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
— Anne Sullivan
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
— Elizabeth Montagu
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.
— George Eliot
...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt.
— Francis Wheen
Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.
— Jules Michelet
What the scientists are apt to forget: the difference between quantity and quality is one of quality, not of -quantity.
— Nanamoli Thera
And her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.
— Madeline Miller
In this world He's apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars.
— Stephen King
Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.
— Anthony Ashley Cooper
You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on ...
— Oliver Goldsmith
I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.
— Carolyn Keene
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady. — Margaret Mitchell
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization
— L. Frank Baum
The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.
— Henry David Thoreau
Like the college professor he was, Kittredge groped only for big words, and, finding no apt ones, he coined a lot of untranslatable new ones.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
— Samuel Richardson
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
— Michel De Montaigne
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
— Thomas Jefferson
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
— Malcolm Forbes
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
— Rachel Carson
We are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.
— Annie Fellows Johnston
The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.
— William Hedgcock Webster
Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.
— Walter Millis
You are more apt to "rust" out your brain from disuse than you are to wear it out from use. You can do it if you believe you can.
— Napoleon Hill
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
— Walter Raleigh
Children are apt to forget to remember.
— E. E. Cummings
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.
— Washington Irving
...a great man. But...not quite great enough.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
— William Dampier
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.
— Stephen King
Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
— Hannah More
It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt to get stuck in a dream if one sits very quiet
— Dodie Smith
When words are most empty, tears are most apt.
— Max Lucado
Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.
— Gabriela Mistral
The Prince's fool! Ha, it may be I go under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I am apt to do myself wrong.
— William Shakespeare
The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.
— Margaret Oliphant
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
— Bayard Taylor
Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.
— E.B. White
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
— Okakura Kakuzo
I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.
— Henry A. Kissinger
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon,
— Thomas Burnet
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Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public
— Robert Hughes
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
— Jeremy Taylor
Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
— Elbert Hubbard
He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.
— John Powell
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
— Teresa Of Avila
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
— Lady Bird Johnson
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
— William Pitt
It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.
— L.M. Montgomery
We are all victims of our human experience," Alice continued, "apt to view the present through the lens of our own past.
— Kate Morton
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
— Publilius Syrus
It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
— Alexander Hamilton
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.
— John Arbuthnot
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
— Roy L. Smith
Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
— Charles Williams
I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.
— Concha Buika
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
— Harold Macmillan
