Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted…

“Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth”

— Jeremy Taylor

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

— Lady Bird Johnson

Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of…

— Marianne Williamson

For many, the recent disclosure of massive warrantless surveillance programs of all citizens by the Obama administration has brought back memories of George Orwell's…

— Jonathan Turley

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

— Roy L. Smith

“...a great man. But...not quite great enough.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

— William Hedgcock Webster

I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.

— David Rakoff

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

— Frederick Pollock

“If we are not apt to steer our life and engineer our individuality, we become preys of the pecking order or panting cardboard characters…

— Erik Pevernagie

I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.

— Teller

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with…

— Teju Cole

“Wagons rattling and banging, horses neighing and snorting, conscripts marching, each with bow and arrows at his hip, fathers and mothers, wives and children,…

— Tu Fu

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

— Robert Hall