#neglect

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#despise #half #i #life #making

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#neglecting #people #something #trying

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. ↗

— David Hume

#hitherto #human #human nature #man #most

It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness. ↗

— James Buchan

#central #economic #end #grievances #help

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#begins #born #child #neglect #neglected

The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#infrastructure #neglected #president #proposals #water

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#betray #children #credit #foreigner #him

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. ↗

— Diogenes

#harp #insensible #itself #like #mouths

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#bitter #extra #extra mile #feel #fuss

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. ↗

— Plato

#end #his #lame #life #man