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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
So he's worth a second shot? The more apt question, my dear, is: are you?
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.
"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.
If someone lies to you, be quick to forgive & they'll be more apt
to tell you the truth.
Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.
It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.
The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.
My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.
But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.
There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.
Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes.
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself.
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.
When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.
When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public
I'm more apt to shed a tear than my wife about family matters.
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.
We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.
We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.
When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
The trouble with making intelligent suggestions is that you're apt to be appointed to carry them out.
When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.
He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.
We are more apt to change our minds when right than wrong.
Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.
One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.
I think the four men of the Beatles are an apt comparison for one Robin Lopez.
Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.
If you say 'Domo arigato' to people, they're apt to go, 'Mr. Roboto.'
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.