Prone Quotes

• Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Moon
  • Prone
  • Drench

• The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

  

  Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Instrument
  • Acts
  • Develops

• I am not prone to indulge in effeminate demonstration, but I am not ashamed to confess that when I gazed on the weather-beaten though ruddy countenance of my old companion, and observed the eager glance of his bright blue eyes, I was quite overcome, and rushed violently into his arms.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Demonstration
  • Indulge
  • Effeminate

• The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Human Understanding
  • Prone
  • Regularity

• But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

  

  Aristotle
  • Philosophy
  • Destruction
  • Substances

• Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Sorrows
  • Prone
  • Old Men

• I am naturally prone to fun or to be funny, but when I talk about myself in interviews, then it's an intellectual exercise.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Fun
  • Exercise
  • Interviews

• No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Hearts
  • Absence
  • Prone

• If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

  

  Epictetus
  • Habit
  • Anger
  • Prone

• How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

  

  Homer
  • Doubt
  • Wise
  • Prone

• Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

  

  Nick Flynn
  • Madness
  • Poets
  • Prone