Waste makes want. [ Proverb ]
Haste makes waste. [ Constantine III ]
Life is too short to waste.
It will soon be dark;
Up! mind thine own aim, and
God speed the mark! [ Emerson ]
Great haste makes great waste. [ Ben. Franklin ]
To waste a candle to find a pin. [ French Proverb ]
Wilful waste brings woeful want. [ Proverb ]
Love me little, love me long,
Is the burden of my song;
Love that is too hot and strong
Burneth soon to waste;
Still I would not have thee cold,
Not too backward or too bold;
Love that lasteth till 'tis old
Fadeth not in haste. [ Old Ballad ]
Spend and be free, but make no waste. [ Proverb ]
Having waste ground enough,
Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary
And pitch our evils there? [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste. [ Bryant ]
Alas! our young affections run to waste,
Or water but the desert. [ Byron ]
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. [ William Shakespeare ]
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. [ Gray ]
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. [ Armstrong ]
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 ]
These should be hours for necessities.
Not for delights; times to repair our nature
With comforting repose, and not for us
To waste these times. [ William Shakespeare ]
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time. [ William Shakespeare ]
The feast of vultures, and the waste of life. [ Byron ]
Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
And not by any sordid shift;
It is haste makes waste;
Extremes have still their fault.
Who gripes too hard the dry and slippery sand,
Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. [ Herrick ]
Heaven, the perfection of all that can
Be said, of thought, riches, delight or harmony.
Health, beauty; and all those not subject to
The waste of time, but in their height eternal. [ Shirley ]
In thy heart there is a holy spot,
As 'mid the waste an isle of fount and palm,
Forever green! - the world’s breath enters not.
The passion-tempest may not break its calm,
'Tis thine, all thine. [ Mrs. Hemans ]
Critics on verse, as squibs on triumphs wait.
Proclaim their glory, and augment the state;
Hot, envious, noisy, proud, the scribbling fry
Burn, hiss, and bounce, waste paper, ink, and die. [ Young ]
To live is not to spend or waste time, but to employ it. [ Proverb ]
He that knows how to waste finds everything to his purpose. [ Proverb ]
Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time. [ Johnson ]
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. [ Spurgeon ]
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. [ Victor Hugo ]
Diligence alone is a good patrimony, but negligence will waste a fair estate. [ Proverb ]
Withhold not your money, where there is need, and waste it not where there is none. [ Proverb ]
Women, cats, and birds are the creatures that waste the most time on their toilets. [ Charles Nodier ]
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white. [ Kabir ]
Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares. [ Plutarch ]
Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles, And waste the time, which looks for other revels. [ William Shakespeare ]
Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste. [ Franklin ]
Life is a desert waste: to beguile the ennui of the journey across it, heaven gave us the kiss. [ S. Marichal ]
Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the gudeman and the gudewife. [ Scotch Proverb ]
There are persons who do not know how to waste their time alone, and hence become the scourge of busy people. [ De Bonald ]
Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. [ Froude ]
Natural liberty is the right of common upon a waste: civil liberty is the safe, exclusive, unmolested enjoyment of a cultivated enclosure. [ Paley ]
Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending. [ Matthew Henry ]
As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Let your pen fail, begin to trifle with blotting-paper, look at the ceiling, bite your nails, and otherwise dally with your purpose, and you waste your time, scatter your thoughts, and repress the nervous energy necessary for your task. [ G. H. Lewes ]
Not in a man's having no business with men, but in having no unjust business with them, and in having all manner of true and just business, can either his or their blessedness be found possible, and this waste world become, for both parties, a home and peopled garden. [ Carlyle ]
I put myself, my experiences, my observations, my heart and soul into my work. I press my soul upon the white paper. The writer who does this may have any style, he or she will find the hearts of their readers. Writing a book involves, not a waste, but a great expenditure of vital force. Yet I can assure you I have written the last lines of most of my stories with tears. The characters of my own creation had become dear to me. I could not bear to bid them good-bye and send them away from me into the wide world. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]