Famous quotes containing the word prone:
“The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of a secret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Moon!
Moon!
I am prone before you.
Pity me,
And drench me in loneliness.”
—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)