“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
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William Shakespeare 699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.”
Nemo invito auditori libenter refert. Sagitta in lapidem nunquam figitur, interdum resiliens percutit dirigentem.
Letter 52
Letters
“The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.”
Fact and Fancy (1962), p. 11
General sources
Ashes and Snow : A Novel in Letters (2005) Flying Elephants Press
Il sonno è veramente, qual uom dice,
parente de la morte, e 'l cor sottragge
a quel dolce penser che 'n vita il tene.
Canzone 226, st. 3
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
Spectator, No. 444.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 600.
“People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.”
"Old Men"
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
Context: People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when...
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.
“The idea that God doesn't care about his children is rooted in a lie, plain and simple.”
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
Section II, Chap. II.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part II