Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
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.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
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.
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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.
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.
Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories