“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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“Nothing is so apt to draw men under teaching, as to love, and be loved.”
Homily 6 on First Timothy https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/230606.htm
“Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.”
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.”
Source: Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796), p. 18
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.”
Act IV, scene xi
The Old Bachelor (1693)
“3387. Men apt to promise, are apt to forget.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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.”
A Reasonable Response: Answers to Tough Questions on God, Christianity, and the Bible (2013)
As quoted in Woman Through the Ages;; (1908) by Emil Reich, p. 155