Quotes
Quotes about Waste
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature...is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time in reading it.
I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Youth is wasted on the young.
E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask who are guilty. [Lat., Trahit ipse furoris Impetus, et visum est lenti quaesisse nocentum.]
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew; And whom the curious painter doth pursue Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks, And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks.
Nuclear waste is a heavy burden to lay on our children and their children and their children's children and their children's children's children and their children's children's children's children...
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
Who has not marveled at the might of kings When voyaging down the river of dead years? What deeds of death to still an hour of fears, What waste of wealth to gild a moth's frail wings! A Caesar to the breeze his banner flings, An Alexander with his bloody spears, A Herod heedless of his people's tears! And Rome in ruin while Nero laughs and sings: Ye actors of a drama, cruel and cold, Your names are by-words in Love's temple now, Your pomp and glory but a winding-sheet; Then Christ came scorning regal power and gold To wear warm blood-drops on a willing brow, And we, in love, forever kiss His feet.
Inward rest... gives an air of leisure to [Christ's] crowded life: above all, there is in this Man a secret and a power of dealing with the waste-products of life, the waste of pain, disappointment, enmity, deathâturning to divine uses the abuses of man, transforming arid places of pain to fruitfulness, triumphing at last in death, and making a short life of thirty years or so, abruptly cut off, to be a "finished" life. We cannot admire the poise and beauty of this human life, and then ignore the things that made it.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
