“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty”
David Hume
“The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.”
Fisher Ames
“Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!”
W.J. Reichmann
“What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.”
Hitopadesa
“The propensity to vote goes straight up with age, although if you care about an issue you tend to vote on it.”
Dan Walters
“The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity.”
Ron Fairly
“If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.”
W. Winwood Reade
