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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
Being yourself is the meat and potatoes of mothering, and if you are forever copying someone else's way you are apt to lose touch with your own truth.
— Janet P. Penley
Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.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
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
— Ellen Glasgow
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind,
— Robin S. Sharma
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
If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.
— Francis Bacon
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.
— Augustus William Hare
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
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
— Harold Macmillan
Mr. Satterthwaite's conversation was apt to be unduly burdened by mentions of his titled acquaintances.
— Agatha Christie
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
— Elbert Hubbard
I believe in something that I do not yet understand.
— Sharman Apt Russell
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
When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
— George Horace Lorimer
...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt.
— Francis Wheen
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
What the scientists are apt to forget: the difference between quantity and quality is one of quality, not of -quantity.
— Nanamoli Thera
I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.
— Carolyn Keene
And her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.
— Madeline Miller
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
— Rachel Carson
Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.
— Jules Michelet
People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
We are more apt to change our minds when right than wrong.
— George S. Clason
We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.
— John Vanbrugh
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
— Harry S. Truman
If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear ...
— Margaret Deland
I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.
— David Rakoff
According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.
— Maria Edgeworth
The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.
— R. Kent Hughes
Shoving hot bread up a roasting bird's ass & feasting on it seems like an apt celebration of colonialism.
— Sherman Alexie
The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
— Charles Churchill
Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.
— Benjamin Franklin
We are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.
— Annie Fellows Johnston
There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly except to each other. — Patricia Wentworth
It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.
— Stephen King
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
