He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew13:22.

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Peter 5:6^7.

If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

-Blake, EubieJames Hubert
  Quoted in the Observer,13 Feb. He died 5 days after his 100th birthday.

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Experience,'The Clod and the Pebble'.

Ye banks and braes o' bonie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair; How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu'o'care!

-Burns, Robert
  'The Banks o' Doon' (2nd version), stanza1.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that art is long. Success is in the silences, Though fame is in the song.

-Carman, (William) Bliss
  Ballads and Lyrics,'Envoi'. These lines are reproduced on the plaque erected in his honour at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.

They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.

-Dodgson
  TheHuntingof theSnark,'Fit the Fifth: TheBeaver's Lesson'.

Iwasneat, clean, shaved and sober, and Ididn'tcare who knew it.

-Chandler, Raymond
  Philip Marlowe. The Big Sleep, ch.1.

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.

-Daniel, Samuel
  Delia, sonnet 54.

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?

-Davies,W(illiam) H(enry)
  'Leisure'.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

-Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)
  Inaugural address, 20  Jan.

Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'Ash Wednesday'.

The people which ceases to care for its literary inheritance becomes barbaric; the people which ceases to produce literature ceases to move in thought and sensibility.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.

My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.

-Elizabeth I
c.1582  'On Monsieur's Departure'.

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

-Field, Frank
  In the Observer, 24 May.

If we domore with less, ourresponsewill be adequateto take care of everybody.

-Fuller, R(ichard) Buckminster
  In Playboy.

Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.

-Gray,Thomas
  Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (published1747), l.51^4.

'Be thine despair and sceptred care; To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.

-Gray,Thomas
  The Bard.  A Pindaric Ode, l.141^4.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

-Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of
Collected in Complete Works (published1912).

A certain sort of friendship soon arose between the Fans and me.We each recognized that we belonged to that same section of thehumanrace with whom it isbetter to drink than to fight.We knew we would each have killed the other, if sufficient inducement were offered, and so we took a certain amount of care that the inducement should not arise.

-Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
  Travels in West  Africa (published1899).