Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.
There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.
Haste makes waste.
Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Life is a waste of time; time is a waste of life; so why waste your time when you could be having the time of your life?