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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

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit. — Henry Ward Beecher

IT'S true what they say about happiness. If you approach life from a place of gratitude, you're more apt to enjoy things. — Anonymous

There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. " — Bob Hope

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 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

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it. — Denise Levertov

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

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum — Ken Kesey

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it. — Elbert Hubbard

but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. Mrs — Henry Fielding

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself. — George Eliot

Guilty consciences are apt to take good providences in a bad sense, — Matthew Henry

...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt. — Francis Wheen

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character — Edward Bates

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think. — L.M. Montgomery

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. — Logan Pearsall Smith

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

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough. — John Powell

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. — Elbert Hubbard

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. — Jeremy Taylor

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me. — John Hawkes

We are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling. — Annie Fellows Johnston

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

We are all victims of our human experience," Alice continued, "apt to view the present through the lens of our own past. — Kate Morton

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

What the scientists are apt to forget: the difference between quantity and quality is one of quality, not of -quantity. — Nanamoli Thera

Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing. — Vincent Price

Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute. — Sonia Orwell

Knowing too much is very apt to make us troublesome to other people — Mary Wortley Montagu

We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice. — William Penn

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease. — John Newton

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. — Josh Billings

When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company. — John Vanbrugh

In the very desire for help one is apt to forget that the objective should be to enable the individual to stand on his own feet. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration. — Hannah More

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way. — Buffalo Bill

MR. CALHOUN. Never, never. MR. WEBSTER. What he means he is very apt to say. MR. CALHOUN. Always, always. MR. WEBSTER. And I honor him for it. — Robert A. Caro

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes. — Anthony Trollope

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones. — Bret Harte

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

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous. — Walter Raleigh

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse. — Bayard Taylor

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

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep. — E.B. White

Sam smiled. "You know it always gets me hot when you say 'apt analogy. — Michael Grant

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others. — Okakura Kakuzo

Enjoy the world while you can I say. A shallow enough philosophy by which to live, but shallow is what I've got. Besides deep is apt to drown you. — Mark Lawrence

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

[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary. — George Sand

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

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

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public — Robert Hughes

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

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. — Lady Bird Johnson

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

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium. — Joseph O'Neill

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. — Margaret Oliphant

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