Negligence Quotes

• The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

  Adam Smith

  Real, Hype, Discipline

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.138, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A little neglect may breed great mischief.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Teacher, May, Littles

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.288, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply to the ills of nations as well. Negligence is at the bottom of all decay. And decay always starts by showing little signs-or warnings. Then is the time to show interest and to be alert. There is nothing quite so easy as to neglect, and nothing quite so difficult as to repair that negligence. Negligence always carries a high price. It costs nothing to avoid it!

  George Matthew Adams

  Warning, May, Littles

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• In persons grafted in a serious trust,
  Negligence is a crime.

  William Shakespeare

  Serious, Crime, Persons

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.306

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• Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

  Ben Jonson

  Relax, Ruins, Reputation

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• That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.

  Seneca the Younger

  Loss

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• Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

  Owen Feltham

  Soul, Rust, Neglect

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Soul, Suffering

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.221, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Don't use time and words carelessly - neither can be retrieved.

  LeCrae

  Use

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• We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Ignorance, Compassion, Support

  "One Who Protects The Truth Will Be Protected By It" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2010.

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• One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.

  Coco Chanel

  Used, Ugliness

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• Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.

  Edward Whymper

  Thinking, Climbing, Hiking

  1871 Scrambles Amongst the Alps.

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• To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Wise, Silence

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.106

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• There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

  Confucius

  Weed, Peasants, Seeds

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• Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

  Samuel Johnson

  Long, Genius, Useless

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• Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Men, Cry

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.165

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• ... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite means to gain this virtue, and making no effort towards it, truly this man tempts God, rather than prays. Thus the divine James says: 'The effectual prayer of a righteous man avails much' (Jms. 5:16). What avails to make prayer effective? is when, besides begging a saint to pray for him about something, the man also prays about it himself and with all diligence does everything necessary for obtaining his request.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

  Bridget of Sweden

  Religious, Fear, Judging

  Saint Bridget (of Sweden), Marguerite Tjader Harris, Albert Ryle Kezel (1990). “Life and Selected Revelations”, p.136, Paulist Press

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• Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

  Mason Cooley

  Would Be, Littles, Forgetfulness

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• Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

  Horace

  Poetry, Imperfection, Faults

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, 351, 18 BC.

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• I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sisters, but I'd rather be dead than to lose my liberty. I have no fear we'll ever lose it because of invasion from the outside. But I do have fear that it may slip away from us because of our own indifference, our own negligence, as citizens of this land. And so I plead with you this morning that you take an active interest in matters pertaining to the future of this country.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Morning, Land

  Ezra Taft Benson (1960). “So shall ye reap: selected addresses”

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• There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.

  Edward Whymper

  Grief, Thinking, Climbing

  1871 Scrambles Amongst the Alps.

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• Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.

  Jim Butcher

  Sex, Children, Book

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.23, Penguin

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• When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Pride, Power

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.224

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• The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

  Khalil Gibran

  Silence, House, My Friends

  Khalil Gibran (1918). “The Madman”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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