Apt Quotes
410 quotes by 323 authors
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment…
— Aristotle
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none…
— Joseph Addison
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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
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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…
— Sherman Alexie
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
— Lord Chesterfield
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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…
— Maya Angelou
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Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality
— Ivan Pavlov
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
— Alexander Hamilton
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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare
— Mark Twain
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Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.
— Oswald Chambers
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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…
— Teresa of Avila
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Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.
— Jean Toomer
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
— John Milton
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
— Ovid
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I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
— Henry Fielding
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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
— William Shakespeare
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