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Wasting Time Quotes - Page 6

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.152

What has not wasting time impaired?

Horace, James DOUGLAS (M.D.), Samuel Patrick, David WATSON (of Brechin.) (1745). “The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace, Translated Into English Prose, as Near as the Two Languages Will Admit. Together with the Original Latin from the Best Editions. Wherein the Words of the Latin Text are Put in Their Grammatical Order ... with Notes ... The Whole Adapted Tothe Capacities of Youth at School, as Well as of Private Gentlemen. By David Watson ... Revised by a Gentleman Well Skill'd in this Sort of Literature at London [i.e. Samuel Patrick]. The Second Edition. [With a”, p.242

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

Interview with Tom Stacey for the Daily Express, as quoted in "The Independent", July 11, 2003.

The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

Gretchen Rubin (2015). “Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life”, p.155, Broadway Books

Wasting time in a relationship that blows is just that - wasted time.

Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.15, Harmony

Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

"A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006.

Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.

Félix J. Palma (2012). “The Map of Time: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.

Eoin Colfer (2009). “Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox”, p.116, Penguin UK