Apt Quotes

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.

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

To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

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

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

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

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

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.

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

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

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

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

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

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.

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

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.

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.