Wasting Time Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old wasting time quotes, wasting time sayings, and wasting time proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

In guarding their fortune men are often closefisted, yet, when it comes to the matter of wasting time, in the case of the one thing in which it is right to be miserly, they show themselves most prodigal. Seneca
I am often filled with wonder when I see some men demanding the time of others and those from whom they ask it most indulgent. Both of them fix their eyes on the object of the request for time, neither of them on the time itself; just as if what is asked were nothing, what is given, nothing. Seneca
No one sets a value on time, all use it lavishly as if it cost nothing. Seneca
Man had time enough, but those who have been robbed of much of their life by the public, have necessarily had too little of it. Seneca
Ain't it funny how the best days of my life was all that wasted time. All that wasted time. Keith Urban
Mama told me life's not fair. So cliche advice right there. The time we wasted, time we lost. We don't even try. Ari Lennox
The only value of wasted time is knowledge. Monica Drake
Every second wasted might have saved a life. Jason Medina
Don’t waste someone’s time or money when you know that person is not someone you want a future with. April Harding
We are wasting time. Time wastes itself. Who are we to float in its way? Iain M. Banks
Over a lifetime there are vast amounts of available time that on analysis are wasted. Steven Redhead