Top 122 Squander Quotes & Sayings

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.

We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary!

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...

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?

We are in a good position and should not squander the opportunity to o the right thing.

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.

I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made.

Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.

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.

All women are troublemakers who take the money their husbands need desperately for a new and better speaker, and selfishly squander it on things like shoes for the children, homogenized milk, or perhaps A SECOND DRESS!

I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.

Seize the moment and dont squander it. Cause you never know when it all could be over.

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them... and royally squander their lives with her.

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

Don't squander what you have. If you do, you'll spend the rest of your days regretting it.

I won't squander my credibility, whatever that is, just for one silly song.

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

We are a richly blessed nation; let's not squander that - one of the worst things we can do is not gratefully acknowledge our abundances.

The question many have in the region is how not to squander the wealth like they did in the 1970s.

The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them...and royally squander their lives with her.

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.

A penny saved is a penny to squander.

To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die- Perish;-and no one asks Who or what they have been.

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.