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Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf. -- Earl Derr Biggers
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. -- Victor Hugo
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. -- Albert Einstein
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. -- David Hume
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. -- A. R. Ammons
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. -- Irving Babbitt
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. -- Horace
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. -- Honore de Balzac
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. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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. -- Johann Arndt
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. -- Pierre Loti
Careless talk costs lives. -- Elizabeth Wein
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. -- Samuel Johnson
Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Fearless people,Careless needle.Harsh words spoken,And lives are broken. -- Seal
A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility. -- Robert Herrick
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. -- Mark Twain
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit. -- Martial
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. -- Wilson Mizner
Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living. -- Catherine Crook de Camp
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! -- Robert Browning
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.' -- Mary Todd Lincoln
Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already. -- Gautama Buddha
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world? -- Euripides
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. -- Margaret Walker
We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our breath and blueness is. -- Leigh Hunt
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend. -- Alexander Pope
Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky: R: Ravishing, I: Impress, C: Courageous or Careless, K: for the Kangols which I've got, That I wear everyday and Y: Why not? -- Slick Rick
I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious. -- George Michael
God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless -- Saint Augustine
Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life. -- William Wordsworth
'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two. -- Ezra Pound
Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. -- Winston Churchill
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives. -- Annie Dillard
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. -- Mark Twain
Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions. -- Luke Ford
We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing. -- William Watson
I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute. -- Richard Stallman
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house. -- Ben Jonson
I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything. -- Taylor Swift
The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned. -- Michael Enzi
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. -- Diane Wood
I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one. -- Laura Wade
Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important. -- Marcus Brigstocke
In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue. -- Saint Ignatius
Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper. I lay it down as a simple matter of fact that no one who is careless about such things must ever expect to make much progress in sanctification. -- J. C. Ryle
I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be. -- Nate Berkus
Trust is a careless pursuit. -- Lauren Kate
The more careless, the more modish. -- Jonathan Swift
Dear God, teach me to be careless. -- Hanif Kureishi
The Creator is not a careless mechanic. -- Ina May Gaskin
People get careless when they're feeling safe. -- Sue Grafton
Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end. -- Tacitus
Keen at the start, but careless at the end. -- Tacitus
Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends. -- Eric Maisel
Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions. -- Laurie R. King
Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain. -- Thomas Gray
It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful... -- Tom Robbins
You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture -- Stephen Fry
Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired. -- Charles Bukowski
When leaders care less about their people, their people will be careless. -- Simon Sinek
Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all. -- Trevor McDonald
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life. -- Brenda Ueland
A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn. -- Gene Tierney
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less. -- Arundhati Roy
Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. -- Marcus Aurelius
The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions. -- Colin Powell
Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten. -- Neal A. Maxwell
A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details. -- John Wooden
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker -- David Hume
I'm so careless that now i don't even care if i cared about you. -- Me
Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man. -- Fiona Apple
I'm so careless that now i don't even care if i cared for you. -- Vatsal
Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate -- Ovid
A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
When you're very successful, you become careless and try to turn many things into routine. -- Michael Schumacher
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters -- Albert Einstein
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house. -- Ben Jonson
Highways are full of careless drivers who are always too close in front of you. -- Sam Ewing
...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience. -- Andy Stanley
Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs. -- Clifton Fadiman
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. -- Horace Walpole
I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless. -- Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters -- El Greco
As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty. -- Stevie Smith
If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading. -- Henry Green
There is evidence that Democrates were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. -- James Comey
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch. -- Kim Edwards
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage. -- Mark Twain
We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be. -- William Penn
Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy. -- Gautama Buddha
Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant. -- John Piper
Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless. -- Lauren Oliver
I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though. -- Ben Howard
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine. -- Taylor Swift
Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession. -- Gautama Buddha
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden. -- Michel de Montaigne
When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses. -- Richard Sibbes
Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction. -- Norm MacDonald
Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her. -- Orison Swett Marden
Nature is the ultimate technology; a technology we are still too immature, arrogant, possessive and careless to care for responsibly. -- Bryant McGill
People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them. -- Watchman Nee
If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair. -- Jenny Slate
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men. -- Mario Puzo
Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow. -- William Merritt Chase
Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack. -- Gautama Buddha
I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans. -- J. K. Rowling
Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures. -- DeWitt Wallace
A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life. -- Anna Quindlen
Most gay, conversational, careless, lovely city ... where one drinks golden Tokay until one feels most beautiful, and warm and loved - oh, Budapesth! -- Winifred Holtby

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