Apt Quotes

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.