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Apt Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin…
- Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.
More Apt Quotes
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare — Mark Twain
- 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
- As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick… — Buffalo Bill
- O world, how apt the poor are to be proud! — William Shakespeare
- A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from… — Ben Hecht
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war,… — Benjamin Franklin