Top 25 Neglect Quotes of 131 - Page 5

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

Bertrand Russell

Time, Neglect, Duty

"Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties" by Bertrand Russell, 1956.

Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

Ronald Reagan

Would Be, Cost, Neglect

Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

God, Matter, Neglect

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Harris Rackham (1972). “Academicae quaestiones”, Loeb Classical Library

Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

Lord Byron

Tyrants, Rebel, Neglect

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1436, Delphi Classics

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you.

L. Ron Hubbard

Neglected

L. Ron Hubbard (1987). “Self Analysis”, p.13, Bridge Publications, Inc.

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

Eugenie de Guerin

Friends, Neglected, Comforter

Eugénie de GUÉRIN, François Guillaume Stanislas TRÉBUTIEN (1866). “Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]”, p.407

Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.

Corliss Lamont

Sex, Morality, Neglect

Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.

Benjamin Franklin

Revenge, Injury, Neglect

Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.172, Barnes & Noble Publishing

A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.

Sophocles

Men, Prudent, Neglect

It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.

Saint Augustine

Ignorant, Together, Neglect

You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.

Ralph Marston

Causes, Neglect, Effects

Upon us lies the responsibility neither to neglect things because they are old nor to reject them because they are new.

Percy Dearmer

Lying, Responsibility, Neglect

Percy Dearmer (1909). “Body and soul: an enquiry into the effect of religion upon health, with a description of Christian works of healing from the New Testament to the present day”

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

Paul Theroux

Buddhism, Principles, Neglect

It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

Mary Stewart

Doe, May, Neglect

Mary Stewart “The Crystal Cave”

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

Marguerite Duras

Women, Ideas, Neglect

Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.51, Grove Press

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

Luc de Clapiers

Causes, Deceiving, Neglect

Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

John Dewey

Thinking, Venture, Neglect

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Ratner (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany”, p.5, SIU Press