Careless Quotes

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.

I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.

Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing.

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.