57 Quotes About Waste-of-time

My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my decision to write. Though he was a reader, he was not a lover of fiction, because fiction is not true, and for that flaw it was forever inferior to fact. If reading fiction was a waste of time, so was the writing of it. Why is it, I wonder, that humor didn't count? Wodehouse, for one, whom both of us loved, was a flawless fiction writer.

Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.

Almost no one gets into an argument hoping to be proven wrong if they are wrong.

I once had a burning desire to become a therapist. Then I realized I am not altogether impressed with the field. All they really had to do was get me to stop drinking, and after 8 years, they are still failing miserably. I still Love Booze... and Now I get the secondary payoff of 'beating' my substance counselor. hehehe. Idiots.

all charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate

Every time you waste in living your life is precious

When you wait for the right time, you'll never know when it's already too late.

Most of us love timesavers because they give us more time to waste.

What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening to him drum, by taking pleasure in it, for pleasure is almost always a waste of time.