No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.