Quotes of: Apt Keyword

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

Malcolm Forbes

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

William Hedgcock Webster

We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.

Helen Fisher

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

Harold MacMillan

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

Anthony Sampson

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

George Gordon Byron

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

Horace Walpole

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

Harold MacMillan

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

John Maynard Keynes

When people fall in love, they are apt to go a little mad.

Mary Bennet

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

George Eliot

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Charles de Secondat

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

Diane Arbus

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

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

P. G. Wodehouse

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

Roy Harper

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

Aaron Hill

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Harold MacMillan

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

B. C. Forbes

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

Jeremy Taylor