“Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.”
"Rip Van Winkle".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
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writer, historian and diplomat from the United States 1783–1859Related quotes
“Nothing is so apt to draw men under teaching, as to love, and be loved.”
John Chrysostom (349–407) important Early Church Father
Homily 6 on First Timothy https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/230606.htm
“Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book III, Ch. 11. Of Cripples
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“They who bow to the enemy abroad will not be of power to subdue the conspirator at home.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Source: Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796), p. 18
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1960, Speech at East Los Angeles College Stadium, Los Angeles, California
“Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.”
William Congreve The Old Bachelor
Act IV, scene xi
The Old Bachelor (1693)
“3387. Men apt to promise, are apt to forget.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Roger Haight (1936) American theologian
Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Eleven, Dynamics of Theology, p. 215
“The man who claims to have no need of philosophy is the one most apt to be fooled by it.”
William Lane Craig (1949) American Christian apologist and evangelist
A Reasonable Response: Answers to Tough Questions on God, Christianity, and the Bible (2013)
Catherine the Great (1729–1796) Empress of Russia
As quoted in Woman Through the Ages;; (1908) by Emil Reich, p. 155