William Hepworth Thompson Quotes

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

I've forgotten the birthdays of everyone close to me. I have forgotten to pay bills, file tax returns on time, go to meetings, and, every week, I forget to put the bins out. But I have never forgotten I want my lunch.

I have never done any homework even when I was a child!

Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not very fastidious in their private life. I'm like that. I love it when people do really nice things around me, but I don't have time to do it for myself. It's very hard for me to even buy a new pair of trousers.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

Women don't take care of themselves because they take care of everybody else.

I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.

I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such things lapse, sometimes for years. This applies to keeping my apartment clean.

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.

I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.

Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Don't judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn't do my laundry.

I'm quite careful. I like to buy nice things for myself, but I like to also be reasonable. I think I'm pretty careful.