We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.
A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.
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.
For many, the recent disclosure of massive warrantless surveillance programs of all citizens by the Obama administration has brought back memories of George Orwell's '1984.' Another Orwell book seems more apt as the White House and its allies try to contain the scandal: 'Animal Farm.'
As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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.
When you hit a player in the head, you're more apt to get some fisticuffs or, you know, bring both teams out on the field, but it was more accepted that - in the '50s, '60s and '70s. I think nowadays it's a little over-policed because I will always believe that knocking a hitter down, even hitting a hitter at, sometimes, is part of baseball.
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.
Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain.
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.
When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.
