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Care: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.— HERRICK — Sorrows Succeed.

Care that is entered once into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest.— BEN JONSON — Tale of a Tub. Act. I. Sc. 4.

And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs.— MILTON — L'Allegro. L. 135.

Begone, old Care, and I prithee begone from me; For i' faith, old Care, thee and I shall never agree. PLAYFORD'S Musical Companion. Catch 13. Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares.— PLUTARCH — Morals. Of the Training

of Children. Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.— J. G. SAXE — Gifts of the Gods.

Care is no cure, but rather a corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 3.

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 34.

For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away. č.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 284.

I am sure, care's an enemy to life.— Shakespeare — Twelfth Night. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 2.

Majores fertilissium in agro oculum domini esse dixerunt. Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. PLINY the Elder-Historia Naturalis XVIII. 84. Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior. Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.— QUINTILIAN — De Institutione Oratoria.

XII. 10. 9. Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere. A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them.— SUETONIUS — Vitæ Duodecim Cæsarum.

Non quam multis placeas, sed qualibus stude. Do not care how many, but whom, you please.— SYRUS — Maxims.

Qui veut voyager loin ménage sa monture. He who will travel far spares his steed.— RACINE — Plaideurs. I. 1.

Wer gar zu viel bedenkt, wird wenig leisten. He that is overcautious will accomplish little.— SCHILLER — Wilhelm Tell. III. 1. 72.