Famous quotes containing the word prone:
“We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)