Top 740 Apt Quotes & Sayings

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

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 expression that invites no interest and gets none.

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.

No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt. The subject must attain aptly not only the truth of his affirmation but also its aptness. And that in turn requires not only the proper operation of one's perception, memory, inference, etc., but also that one deploy such competences through competent epistemic risk assessment.

Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!

The real things are apt to be deviant.

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.

we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.

What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

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

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

The happier you are, the more apt you are to make a prudent decision.

What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon.

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.

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.

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

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

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

Amazon Web Services for payments is an apt description of Stripe.

If a shot aimed at aptness succeeds aptly, it is then fully apt, since it is not only apt but also aptly apt. But the full aptness of such an attempt is entirely compatible with its being a horrible murder, if the "hunter" is an assassin and the prey his victim. That hunter's shot may still be outstandingly, fully apt, if it manifests the agent's competence in both archery dexterity and shot selection.

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.