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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen

REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide. — Ambrose Bierce

I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.
Accordingly I set off thus: — Laurence Sterne

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. — David Hume

If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet. — Kenneth Kaye

What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces. — Bill Vaughan

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end. — Charles C. Mann

Have you ever been faced with the clear certainty that the culinary arts have a great propensity to rendering themselves unsavory? — Nicole Sager

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. — Fisher Ames

Strong minded people control their propensity.
Dependency on anything is a lack of maturity. — Ricardo Derose

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever — Edmund Burke

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. — Benjamin Haydon

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men ... — Mercy Otis Warren

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever. — Mary McGrory

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit. — Ralph Cudworth

Life with kids is unpredictable. Their propensity to live "in the moment" clashes easily with our "perfect plans. — Jill Savage

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo. — Ambrose Bierce

Its not easy to steer life without errors; at times forced by propensity; at times by Karma; at times negligence pushes one to make mistakes ... — Dinesh Kumar

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage — Robert James Waller

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery. — Thorstein Veblen

You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories. — Jon Jones

Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools. — Pete Hamill

When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars. — Emily Yoffe

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. — Carl Sagan

If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions. — Seneca The Younger

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized. — Vikram Seth

The propensity to do good things is a choice. — Shaun Cassidy

I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop. — Robert Pattinson

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering. — Ada Leverson

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life. — Miguel

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity. — Joanna Baillie

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity. — Bertrand Russell

Curiosity is a restless propensity and often does but hurry us forward the more irresistably, the greater is the danger that attends its indulgence. — Lennard J. Davis

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature — John Bowlby

No better is the propensity, very popular nowadays, to brand supporters of other ideologies as lunatics. Psychiatrists — Ludwig Von Mises

For EARTH which is an intelligence hath a voice and a propensity to speak in all her parts. — Christopher Smart

I remind myself how people with a low propensity for success whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success. — Keith Ferrazzi

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times. — Edward Gibbon

It is a human propensity to refuse any change. After all, who desires to move out of their cosy caves and battle in this ever-developing world. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

There is a known correlation between denial of one's sexuality and a propensity to self-destructive behaviour. — Peter Tatchell

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego. — Ambrose Bierce

The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity. — Ron Fairly

Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker. — Marek Belka

Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other. — Peter FitzSimons

Blood transmits a propensity for heart diseases; if it also transmits a propensity for treason, no one has ever been able to prove it. — Jonathan Littell

lot of agility, adaptability, a natural propensity toward curiosity, an insatiable appetite for that and this and this and that! — Margaret Lobenstine

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play. — Jaak Panksepp

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development. — T.D. Jakes

The propensity of man, is to invent history, that he may promote his own destiny...

Rev. Joaquin R. Larriba — Joaquin R. Larriba

Contentment is not a natural propensity of man. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence. — Sylvester Stallone

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. — Adam Smith