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Quotes about Waste


Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

Henry De Montherlant

You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.

C. D. Andrews

The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours.

Lady Kasluck

The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.

Lady Hasluck

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

Alexander Pope

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Bob Edwards

The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.

Charlie Chaplin

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. [Lat., Cernis ut ignavum corrumpant otia corpus Ut capiant vitium ni moveantur aquae.]

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

Sir Aubrey de Vere

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Georges Courteline

Remember, the quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual.

Anthony Robbins

Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.

John Keble

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

William Shakespeare

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

George Bernard Shaw

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.

Austin Farrar

Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted. There are some you love, I know; Be not loath to tell them so. Lips go dry and eyes grow wet Waiting to be warmly met, Keep them not in waiting yet; Kisses kept are wasted.

Edmund Vance Cooke

The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

Changed to a lapwing by th' avenging god, He made the barren waste his lone abode, And oft on soaring pinions hover'd o'er The lofty palace then his own no more.

James Beattie

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus)

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Nicholas Chamfort

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

Elbert Hubbard

Life is wasted on the living.

Douglas Adams

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

Moses Hadas

Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.

William Cowper

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