Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you....
I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.
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.
Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; -from fear of its being abused.
Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.