| "Businesses planned for service are APT to succeed businesses planned for profit are APT to fail." »Nicholas Murray Butler |
| "A man is too APT to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him." »H. Mathews |
| "In a heated argument we are APT to lose sight of the truth." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is APT to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness." »Sir Robert Hutchinson |
| "When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very APT to walk straight into the gutter." »Logan Pearsall Smith |
| "Men are APT to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive." »William Congreve |
| "The advice of their elders to young men is very APT to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "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 |
| "The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not APT to fall." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is APT to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us." »Margery Allingham |
| "The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is APT to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age." »Wystan Hugh Auden |
| "Our firmest convictions are APT to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries." »Jose Ortega y Gasset |
| "There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all APT to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere." »Jane Austen |
| "In youth men are APT to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago." »Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| "It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are APT to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts." »Patrick Henry |
| "Beginnings are APT to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea." »Rachel Carson |
| "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." »John Dryden |
| "As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more APT to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality." »George Washington |
| "Men moving only in an official circle are APT to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are APTer and APTer with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity." »William Adams |
| "The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is APT to spread discontent among those who are." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most APT to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization." »L. Frank Baum |
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