Zitat des Tages über Geeignet / Apt:
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.
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.
If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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.
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes.
I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.
There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.
Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, but if you write as true to life as you possibly can, people will see symbolism. They'll all see different symbolism, but they're apt to because you can see it in life.
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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.
In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
Most biographers are apt to be discouraged by the sheer volume of papers left behind by their subject.
I kind of tried my hand at sports and school, and I wasn't very apt at either one of those things.
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
