Misapply Famous Quotes & Sayings
6 Misapply Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
I do not giggle without purpose. Lady Linette says you should never misapply a giggle.— Gail Carriger
It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better, no wiser, no greater than the past is to be little and foolish and bad; it is to misapply noble means, to sacrifice glorious opportunities for the performance of sublime deeds, to become cumberers of the ground.— William Lloyd Garrison
If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.— Lucretius
Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case.— Hersh Shefrin
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.— Thomas Paine
Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.— Jane Austen
