Apt Quotes

410 quotes by 323 authors

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff — Harold Nicolson
But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment… — Samuel Johnson
There is a place for analysis, but it is apt to be quite fatal in prayer and meditation. Do not dissect the love of God,… — Emmet Fox
Politically Incorrect was the name of the show Bill Maher hosted in the 1990s. It's also an apt description of the man himself. Now host… — Fareed Zakaria
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that… — John Stuart Mill
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make… — Johannes Tauler
We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us. — George Eliot
Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light,… — Frederick Buechner
For my own part, I believe that in dealing with skeptics, and unbelievers, and enemies of the Bible, Christians are too apt to stand only… — J C Ryle
If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading. — Henry Green
We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something… — Oswald Chambers
In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as… — Oswald Chambers
Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt… — Clifford Allbutt
We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards. — Wilford Woodruff
If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will interfere with the… — Mark Hall
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him… — George Eliot
There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of. — Joseph Butler
The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can… — William O. Douglas
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. — Samuel Richardson
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a… — James G. Frazer

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