Apt Quotes

410 quotes by 323 authors

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid… — Michael Moore
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him. — William Osler
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. — Rachel Carson
Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly… — Jawaharlal Nehru
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The… — Theodore Roosevelt
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea. — Rachel Carson
Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged… — Winston Churchill
A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument. — Chauncey Depew
There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to… — Charles Caleb Colton
When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give… — Charles Caleb Colton
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such… — William Hazlitt
What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon, — Thomas Burnet
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… — William E. Gladstone
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. — Ellen Glasgow
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… — Charles Caleb Colton
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always… — Robert Cormier
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently… — Daniel Dennett
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. — George Eliot
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins. — George Eliot
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. — B. C. Forbes

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