WASTE

Related Subjects: Economy, Excess, Extravagance, Futility, Idleness, Prodigality

1. For wilful waste makes woeful want,
   And I may live to say,
   Oh! how I wish I had the bread
   That once I threw away!—Anonymous, The Crust of Bread
   

2. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not?—Bible, Isaiah 55:2
   

3. To what purpose is this waste?—Bible, Matthew 26:8
   

4. Wasted his substance with riotous living.—Bible, Luke 15:13
   

5. She saw two legs were lost on him
   Who never meant to run.—GEORGE CANNING
   

6. Waste not want not is my doctrine.—CHARLES KINGSLEY, Westward Ho!
   

7. In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost.—JOHN MORLEY, Recollections
   

8. Wilful waste brings woeful want.—Proverb
   

9. A man can never thrive who has a wasteful wife.—Proverb
   

10. He that keeps not crust nor crumb,
    Weary of all, shall want some.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

11. We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

12. The remainder viands
    We do not throw in unrespective sink
    Because we now are full.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
    

13. The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night