Every day you waste is one you can never make up.
~ George Allen

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

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
~ Samuel Butler

The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons.
~ Prince Philip Edinburgh

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.
~ Thomas A. Edison

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Willful waste brings woeful want.
~ Thomas Fuller

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

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

The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
~ Henry Miller

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
~ Thomas Love Peacock

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
~ William Shakespeare

The greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas.
~ Anonymous