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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference. -- Antonin Artaud
I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either. -- Slash
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. -- Walter Savage Landor
We are in a good position and should not squander the opportunity to o the right thing. -- Dennis Moore
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. -- Benjamin Franklin
It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it. -- Christine Gregoire
Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity. -- Lisa Cholodenko
Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander. -- Sebastian Coe
I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part. -- John Breaux
I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off. -- Wang Jianlin
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power. -- Margaret Heffernan
We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity. -- Jay Weatherill
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces. -- Julia Glass
Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas. -- Bennie Thompson
Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to watch things as they happen with your own eyes, knowing that the memory of the experience will always be with you. -- Rachel Nichols
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. -- George Sand
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him. -- Anna Julia Cooper
We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them. -- Tony Judt
If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people. -- Steve Wynn
A penny saved is a penny to squander. -- Ambrose Bierce
Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead. -- Emily Dickinson
May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them. -- Scott Cairns
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A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms. -- John Galt
The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it. -- Mark Twain
[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers. -- Herbert Hoover
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it. -- Don DeLillo
Seize the moment and dont squander it. Cause you never know when it all could be over. -- Eminem
Don't squander what you have. If you do, you'll spend the rest of your days regretting it. -- Jeaniene Frost
If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing. -- Plautus
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it. -- Walter Savage Landor
Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.... -- Mary Jo Salter
We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary! -- Catherine DeVrye
Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others. -- Marquis de Sade
It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities. -- Osama bin Laden
The question many have in the region is how not to squander the wealth like they did in the 1970s. -- Charles Salvador
Learn when to fear, and how to fear, and how much to fear, before you squander all you have left. -- Janet Morris
The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry. -- John Herschel
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here -- Maynard James Keenan
We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it. -- Diana Trilling
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. -- Mortimer Collins
To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves. -- Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
We are squandering our wealth in many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom. -- Andrew Bacevich
It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job. -- Alan Cooper
We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments. -- Jeffery Deaver
They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls? -- Rudyard Kipling
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it. -- Andre Gide
I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time. -- Sophie Kinsella
Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life. -- Dogen
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar -- Oscar Wilde
To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose. -- Virginia Woolf
In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have. -- Philip Toshio Sudo
All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art. -- Pablo Picasso
To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow. -- Omar Khayyam
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings. -- John Updike
Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure. -- David Hilbert
Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most? -- John Gay
Be strong-be strong in the discipline of self. How many otherwise good men squander their strength and dissipate their will and literally destroy their lives because they have not the power of self-discipline. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good. -- William Hazlitt
No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources. -- Henry Mintzberg
Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook. -- Truman Capote
Real Men no longer drive Corvettes. Despite being able to squander gas with the best of them, even today's least enlightened Real Man finds the notion of a $17,000 plastic car with no trunk somewhat absurd. -- Bruce Feirstein

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