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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Waste

Time elaborately thrown away.

Young.

More water glideth by the mill than wots the miller of.

Shakespeare.

What maintains one vice, would bring up two children. Remember, many a little makes a mickle; and farther, beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Franklin.

Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how.

Dr. Johnson.

  • Oh! waste thou not the smallest thing,
  • Created by Divinity;
  • For grains of sand do mountains make,
  • And atomies infinity;
  • Waste thou not then, the smallest time,
  • ’Tis imbecile infirmity,
  • For well thou know’st, if aught thou know’st,
  • That seconds form eternity.
  • Edward Knight.