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“To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow, or with taper-light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess.” William Shakespeare, King John
“Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“Worry is a waste of emotional reserves.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.” George Orwell, 1984
“I like this place, And willingly could waste my time in it.” William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline
“I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; for now hath time made me his numbering clock: my thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, whereto my finger, like a dial's point, is pointing...” William Shakespeare, Richard II
“DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“knowledge should lead to wisdom, and . . . if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time!” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“Taking crazy things seriously is—a serious waste of time.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“It can only take a moment . . . to waste the rest of your life...” Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff
“You know how gossip is. It’s the toxic waste of small towns.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“We waste our energy fighting one another, instead of presenting a common front to the world.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.” Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
“Our life is frittered away by detail.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me. It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man’s life—the priceless moments that will never come back to him again—being wasted in mere brutish sleep.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“The future is just wasted on some people.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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