Famous quotes with Apt to

• Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

  Joseph Addison
• 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.

  Maya Angelou
• 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 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.

  Aristotle
• '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.

  Mary Astell

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Related words: adaptable, adaptable, adjustable, diversified, corresponding, correspondent, adaptability

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