Apt Quotes

410 quotes by 323 authors

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it. — Malcolm Forbes
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… — Augustus Hare
I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and… — John Hawkes
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
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… — William Hazlitt
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. — Washington Irving
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. — John Maynard Keynes
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the… — John Locke
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. — Harold MacMillan
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps. — Harold MacMillan
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… — Anne Sullivan Macy
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… — James Madison
There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what… — Simon Mainwaring
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. — W. Somerset Maugham
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good,… — John Stuart Mill
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. — William Penn
Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather… — Steven Pinker
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. — William Pitt
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. — Samuel Richardson

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