Apt Quotes

410 quotes by 323 authors

The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient… — Lydia M. Child
For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by… — Jonathan Swift
We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice. — William Penn
The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt… — H. L. Mencken
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose… — Horace
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is… — Ben Hecht
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly. — Oscar Wilde
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme. — Aaron Hill
When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking. — George Horace Lorimer
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand. — Michel de Montaigne
We are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon it than that… — Robert Morrison MacIver
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and… — John Arbuthnot
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith."… — Bertrand Russell
It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just… — James Madison
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt… — Alexander Hamilton
Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in the second sentence?… — Alexander Hamilton
We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it. — William Penn
Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it. — Denise Levertov
When words are most empty, tears are most apt. — Max Lucado

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