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Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

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

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine

I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.

Willful waste brings woeful want.

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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.