Waste

(234 votes)   Willful waste brings woeful want.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(118 votes)   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
1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE

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(111 votes)   The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(109 votes)   We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(108 votes)   Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.

Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(106 votes)   The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons.

Prince Philip Edinburgh
1921-, The husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

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(105 votes)   The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Thomas Love Peacock
1785-1866, British Author

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(105 votes)   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
1891-1980, American Author

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(94 votes)   The greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas.

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(89 votes)   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
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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