Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nothing is easy to the negligent. [ Proverb ]

A careless master makes a negligent servant. [ Proverb ]

A young man negligent, an old man necessitous. [ Proverb ]

If you are negligent, others will be so to you. [ Proverb ]

Servants will not be diligent where the master is negligent. [ Proverb ]

My son, be not now negligent, for the Lord hath chosen thee to stand before Him. [ Apoc ]

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order. [ Blair ]

The best ground, untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds; a man of knowledge that is either negligent or uncorrected cannot but grow wild and godless. [ Bishop Hall ]

The want of interest renders a person negligent; servants are commonly negligent in what concerns their master's interest. Negligence is therefore the fault of persons of all descriptions, but particularly those in low condition. [ G. Crabb ]

The young man may applaud the negligent and pusillanimous instructor; but when that man, no longer young, suffers the result of that neglect and pusillanimity, it is well if a better spirit had taught him to mention the name of that instructor without bitter execration. [ F. Wayland ]

I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. [ Chesterfield ]