Careless
Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.
Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless.
Without thought or purpose; without due care; without attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression.
Not receiving care; uncared for.
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Careless Quotations
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
David Hume
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
Honore De Balzac
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Horace
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
Ben Jonson
Careless Translations
careless in Dutch is nonchalant, nalatig, onachtzaam
careless in Hungarian is gondtalan, gondatlan
careless in Italian is abborracciatamente, incauto, leggiero
careless in Latin is incuriosus
careless in Portuguese is descuidado
careless in Spanish is incauto, atolondrado, sin cuidado, negligente
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