Apt Quotes

410 quotes by 323 authors

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes… — Benjamin Franklin
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly… — Henry Fielding
A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself. — George D. Prentice
I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one. — Henry A. Kissinger
Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed… — George Washington
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the… — Saint Augustine
Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art. — Otto von Bismarck
On the Internet, it's survival of the easiest.... Give users a good experience and they're apt to turn into frequent and loyal customers. But ...… — Jakob Nielsen
The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation. — Amelia B. Edwards
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization — L. Frank Baum
The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted;… — Nikola Tesla
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and… — Benjamin Franklin
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt… — Harvey Cushing
The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing… — Stephen King
If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one. — Frances Farmer
I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done… — Patrick Gale
It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he… — Solomon Northup
When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered. — Alice Hegan Rice
They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy,… — Gore Vidal
The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is… — Lewis Mumford

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