“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly”
Oscar Wilde
“Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.”
Charles Williams
“If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
“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
“An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.”
Letitia Landon
