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  • He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew13:22.

  • Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Peter 5:6^7.

  • If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

    - EubieJames Hubert Blake
      Quoted in the Observer,13 Feb. He died 5 days after his 100th birthday.

  • Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair.

    -William Blake
      Songs of Experience,'The Clod and the Pebble'.

  • Ye banks and braes o' bonie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair; How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu'o'care!

    - Robert Burns
      'The Banks o' Doon' (2nd version), stanza1.

  • Have little care that Life is brief, And less that art is long. Success is in the silences, Though fame is in the song.

    - (William) Bliss Carman
      Ballads and Lyrics,'Envoi'. These lines are reproduced on the plaque erected in his honour at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.

  • They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.

    -Dodgson
      TheHuntingof theSnark,'Fit the Fifth: TheBeaver's Lesson'.

  • Iwasneat, clean, shaved and sober, and Ididn'tcare who knew it.

    - Raymond Chandler
      Philip Marlowe. The Big Sleep, ch.1.

  • Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.

    - Samuel Daniel
      Delia, sonnet 54.

  • What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?

    -W(illiam) H(enry) Davies
      'Leisure'.

  • History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

    - Dwight D(avid) Eisenhower
      Inaugural address, 20  Jan.

  • Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      'Ash Wednesday'.

  • The people which ceases to care for its literary inheritance becomes barbaric; the people which ceases to produce literature ceases to move in thought and sensibility.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.

  • My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.

    -Elizabeth I
    c.1582  'On Monsieur's Departure'.

  • The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

    - Frank Field
      In the Observer, 24 May.

  • If we domore with less, ourresponsewill be adequateto take care of everybody.

    - R(ichard) Buckminster Fuller
      In Playboy.

  • Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.

    -Thomas Gray
      Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (published1747), l.51^4.

  • 'Be thine despair and sceptred care; To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.

    -Thomas Gray
      The Bard.  A Pindaric Ode, l.141^4.

  • Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

    - George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax
    Collected in Complete Works (published1912).

  • A certain sort of friendship soon arose between the Fans and me.We each recognized that we belonged to that same section of thehumanrace with whom it isbetter to drink than to fight.We knew we would each have killed the other, if sufficient inducement were offered, and so we took a certain amount of care that the inducement should not arise.

    - Mary Henrietta Kingsley
      Travels in West  Africa (published1899).

  • Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

    -John Milton
      Lycidas, l.64^76.

  • His trust was with the eternal to be deemed Equal in strength, and rather than be less Cared not to be at all; with that care lost Went all his fear.

    -John Milton
      Of Moloch. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.46^9.

  • He handles symbolism rather like an Olympic weight lifter, raising it with agonizing care, brandishing it with a tiny grunt of triumph, then dropping it with a terrible clang.

    - Benedict Nightingale
      Of playwright  William Inge. In the NewYork Times, 28  Jul.

  •    Nothing can make me madder than lawyers who don't care about others.

    -Janet Reno
      Address to theAmerican BarAssociation. In the NewYork Times, 9 Aug.

  • Joy shivers in the corner where she knits And Conscience always has the rocking-chair, Cheerful as when she tortured into fits The first cat that was ever killed by Care.

    - Edwin Arlington Robinson
      Dionysus in Doubt,'New England'. distribution  based  on  the  work  of  Keynes.  Her  works  include The  Economics  of  Imperfect  Competition  (1933)  and  Economic Heresies (1971).

  • As I grow older and older, And totter towards the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

    - Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers
    'That'sWhy I Never Read Modern Novels', collected in Janet Hitchman Such a Strange Lady (1975), ch.12.

  • Take caretoget what youlike or youwill be forcedto like what you get.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings'.

  •    To preserve a trading state from decline, the greatest care must be taken, to support a perfect balance between the hands employed in work and the demand for their labour.

    - SirJames Steuart (later Denham)
      Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy.

  •    To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

    - Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain

  • In Baxter's view, the care of external goods should only lie on the shoulders of the'saint like a light cloak, which can be thrown aside at any moment.' But fate decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage.

    - Max Weber
    ^5  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (translated byTalcott Parsons,1930), ch.5. Richard Baxter (1615^91) was an eminent Puritan, chaplain of Cromwell's army.

  • With what nice care equivalents are given, How just, how bountiful, the hand of Heaven.

    -William Wordsworth
      'Poor Robin', l.35^6 (published1842).

  • Rose of all Roses,Rose of all the World! The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled Above the tide of hours, trouble the air, And God's bell buoyed to be the water's care.

    -W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
      'The Rose of Battle', l.1^4. Collected in The Rose (1893).

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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