Quotes about Waste
No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.
— Anonymous
[The prodigal son] wasted his substance with riotous living.
— Anonymous
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
— Anonymous
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove
— Samuel Johnson
luxury generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God
— John Calvin
But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.
— Edith Wharton
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
— William Wordsworth
Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare.
— Donald Trump
I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.
— St. Jerome
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
— Thomas Jefferson