Apt Quotes

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Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. — Charles Williams
This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal. — Atul Gawande
Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been trusted — Lord Chesterfield
The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation. — Edward Gibbon
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions… — Henry Louis Mencken
Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human experience, may be so apt to serve the soul as… — William Saroyan
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins — William Pitt The Younger
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more… — Charles Caleb Colton
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudicial in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and race commends by custom. — Arthur Helps
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are… — Kathleen Norris
True art is very apt to break rules without violation of regulations. — Mohammad MUSTAFA
After much deliberation, I have concluded that it is apt to say a real woman knows her place. Not because she is she is inferior… — Kathleen Scott
Dont worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The… — Baz Lurhman
1 - 2 - 3 To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. William Penn To be like… — William Penn
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing unless it is… — Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more… — Dan Brown
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. — Robert Hutchinson
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out of a great many smaller ones — Bret Harte
Men are not generally sufficiently aware of the distinction between the law of God and his purpose; they are apt to suppose, that as the… — John Witherspoon
William Hazlitt quotes The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of… — William Hazlitt

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