Neglect Quotes

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

I despise making the most of one’s time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.

The time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects.

Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.

Caught in that sensual music all neglect momuments of unaging intellect.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Four things come not back-the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.