Apt Quotes

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

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

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

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.

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

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.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

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

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.

A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.