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Quotes About Squander

How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?" - Seth Godin, sethgodin.com
~ Seth Godin
Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?
~ John Gay
Life is too precious to squander on trivial things. Grant us, Lord, the unswerving resolve to pray and live with David Brainerd's urgency: "Oh, that I might never loiter on my heavenly journey!
~ John Piper
I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.
~ Elmore Leonard
Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted.
~ Jon Courtenay Grimwood
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
~ Walter Becker
Everybody can't be rich! No fortune can hold out against waste!
~ Gustave Flaubert
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time passes swiftly by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken, awaken. Awaken! Take heed. Do not squander your life.
~ Sun Tzu
A mind is a terrible thing; waste it.
~ Brad Blanton
My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.
~ Tom Hollander
Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?
~ Bill Bryson
Isn't it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?
~ Bill Bryson
We all have a grain of god in us. We do get opportunities to realize it, when moments in life demand selfless deeds of compassion from us. But we often squander them.
~ Ashok Kallarakkal
I tried to show my affection and gratitude with small attentions, but he would not allow it; he was not used to receiving affection, although it was his nature to squander it on others.
~ Isabel Allende
We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.
~ Jay Weatherill
life allowed to waste like a tap left running.
~ Virginia Woolf
Not to encounter a true teacher will result in being led around by your feelings and emotions. The case of the foolish son of a wealthy man leaving home with the family treasure and throwing it away like so much rubbish is truly a pathetic one.51 Likewise, to the extent that we are familiar with what the work of the tenzo is we must not squander it.
~ D?gen
I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.
~ WC Fields
Where there is abundance you can afford waste.
~ Unknown
Socialism invariably leads to economic disaster and often to the government slaughter of its citizens. Even under less severe forms of socialism, regimes live off their nation's wealth that was accumulated before socialist control, until they inevitably squander it.7
~ David Limbaugh
Time is precious, but we squander it thoughtlessly
~ J Oswald Sanders
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.
~ D?gen
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
~ Don DeLillo
boondoggles
~ John Milton