“Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.”
Harold Macmillan
“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly”
Oscar Wilde
“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.”
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins”
William Pitt the younger
“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.”
Horace
“Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human experience, may be so apt to serve the soul as this freedom and this necessity to be kind.”
William Saroyan
“An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.”
Letitia Landon
