Men apt to promise are apt to forget.
The learned are apt to be taciturn.
Tall branches are apt to be broken.
I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.
Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these problems or to speak of them with grief and pity. Spi...
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.
Scottie: And then what did he do? Did he train you? Did he rehearse you? Did he tell you exactly what to do, what to say? You were a very apt pupil too, weren't you? You were a very apt pupil! Well, why did you pick on me? Why me?
Incidentally, one has to be very careful with that ‘Bridegroom’ imagery. It is so very apt to land one in Male and Female Principles, Eleusis, and the womb of the Great Mother. And that sort of thing doesn’t make much appeal to well-balanced wo...
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
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 gene...
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare.
In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
