The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Clouds on clouds in volumes driven. Curtain round the vault of heaven.

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music.

We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock.

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

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

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.