Man is frail, and prone to evil. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Fools, to talking ever prone
Are sure to make their follies known. [ Gay ]
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! [ Homer ]
Men are more prone to pleasure than to virtue. [ Cicero ]
Men are more prone to revenge injuries, than to requite kindnesses. [ Proverb ]
We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]
Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone
To reverence what is ancient, and can plead
A course of long observance for its use.
That even servitude, the worst of ills,
Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing! [ Cowper ]
With such deceits he gained their easy hearts, too prone to credit his perfidious arts. [ Dryden ]
The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity. [ Dr. Guthrie ]
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion, - on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion. [ Goethe ]
To doubt is an injury; to suspect a friend is breach of friendship; jealousy is a seed sown but in vicious minds: prone to distrust, because apt to deceive. [ Lord Lansdowne ]
In all the world there is no vice Less prone to excess than avarice; It neither cares for food nor clothing; Nature's content with little - that with nothing. [ Butler ]