Apt Quotes

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

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.

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.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

'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.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

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.

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.

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.