#wasted

Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928) ↗

— Clare Winger Harris

#material-possessions #materialism #possessions #uselessness #wasted-time

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#busy #corner #could #hand #hat

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#never #talk #wasted

I have wasted my hours. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#i #wasted

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph. ↗

— George Saunders

#i #lot #novel #now #paragraph

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#i #me #now #time #waste

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him! ↗

— Richard Harris Barham

#dim #each #eyes #grammar #heedless

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day. ↗

— Mickey Rooney

#always #day #get #get married #haven