"Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class……" — John Updike

More Careless Quotes

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• Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself… — Johann Arndt
• The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
• Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband… — Honore de Balzac
• That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first… — Robert Browning
• The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. — A. R. Ammons
• Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house. — Ben Jonson
• Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy… — Horace
• A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose… — William Shakespeare
• If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect,… — John of the Cross
• Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance… — Gordon B. Hinckley
• Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto… — Michael Pollan

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