Quotes of Inattentive - somelinesforyou

“ Achilles absent was Achilles still! ”

- Homer

“ Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. ”

- Bible

“ So the preparation for this, I was remiss basically. I should be flogged. ”

- Johnny Depp

“ The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. ”

- Andrew Jackson

“ I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither. ”

- William Trevor

“ Greater things are believed of those who are absent. ”

- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

“ He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future. ”

- Horace

“ That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself. ”

- Ovid
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