Apt Quotes

410 quotes by 323 authors

I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He… — Lin Yutang
In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the… — Benjamin Disraeli
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. — Samuel Johnson
I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if itâ€™s something fantastic. Theyâ€™re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even… — Cindy Sherman
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. — Walter Bagehot
We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air.… — George Eliot
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company. — John Vanbrugh
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe. — Jane Jacobs
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. — Alfred North Whitehead
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became… — L. Frank Baum
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an… — Galileo Galilei
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the… — George Eliot
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since… — William Penn
It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless… — Samuel J. Tilden
But I think that Australians have a sort of independence, and I think that, rightly or wrongly, they tend to make their own decisions as… — Joan Sutherland
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret… — Honore de Balzac
Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of… — Rose Kennedy
Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece. — Lady Margaret Sackville
To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt… — Nikos Kazantzakis

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