Apt Quotes

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. (John Tyler)
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one. View quote
Frances Farmer
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. View quote
Washington Irving
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. View quote
Anthony Sampson
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. View quote
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. (P. G. Wodehouse)
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of thecommunity are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. View quote
George Washington
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. View quote
Ben Hecht
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. View quote
Samuel Richardson
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason. View quote
Robertson Davies
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently. View quote
Florenz Ziegfeld
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Open platforms and experimental amateurs ... eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. ... Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether. View quote
Cory Doctorow
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting. View quote
Harry S. Truman
The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore. (John Adams)
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice. View quote
William Hazlitt
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. View quote
Harold Macmillan
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps. View quote
Harold Macmillan
We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn. View quote
Henry David Thoreau