NEGLECT

Related Subjects: Attention, Delay, Forgetfulness, Idleness, Indifference, Procrastination

1. A wise and salutary neglect.—BURKE
   

2. Whose most tender mercy is neglect.—GEORGE CRABBE, The Village
   

3. A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.—FRANKLIN, Poor Richard
   

4. There is something inexplicable about me which brings ill luck on the governments that neglect me.—TALLEYRAND, to Louis XVIII