As things are and as fundamentally they must always be poetry is not a career but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Ah the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills parenting cooking elaborate meals purchasing a grown-up bed jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us hovering averting our eyes and they seldom offer thanks but what we do for them is never wasted.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

The world is too much with us late and soon getting and spending we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy wasteful blundering low and horribly cruel work of nature!

Rest is not idleness and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day listening to the murmur of the water or watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day and that's in the morning when I shave.

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient a lot more real time a lot less waste.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel and before I know I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

Geez all that money we waste on space exploration just think how many bombs that would buy!

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed spent and wasted.