The land lies desolate and stripped; Across its waste has thinly strayed A tattered host of eucalypt. From whose gaunt uniform is made A ragged penury of shade.

-Adams, Arthur Henry
  'Written in  Australia', in The Collected Verses of  Arthur H Adams.

I believe every human has a finite number of heart- beats.I don't intend towasteanyof minerunning around doing exercises.

-Armstrong, Neil A(lden)
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Deuteronomy 32:10.

En perseguirme, Mundo, Que¤   interesas? En que¤   te ofendo, cuando so¤  lo intento poner bellezas en mi entendimiento y no mi entendimiento en las bellezas? World, in hounding me, what do you gain? How can it harm you if I choose, astutely, rather to stock my mind with things of beauty, than waste its stock on every beauty's claim?

-Cruz, SorJuana Ine¤  s de la
  Poes|¤  a, teatro y prosa,'Que¤  jase de la suerte' (translated as 'She Complains about Her Fate',1985).

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort or the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

-Empson, Sir William
  'Missing Dates'.

From the lone shieling of the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seasö Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides! Fair these broad meads, these hoary woods are grand; But we are exiles from our fathers' land.

-Galt,John
  'Canadian Boat Song', a translation from the Gaelic attributed to Galt, published in Blackwood's Magazine, Sep. It has also been attributed to Walter Scott.

My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.

-Hunt, Lamar
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

The best machines and to be chosen aboveall others are those which consist of the fewest parts or which are the simplest, which produce the least friction; which are not too heavily loaded, and where the power can be convenientlyapplied without any waste.

-Leupold,Jakob
  Theatrum machinarum.

At last America is in my view; a dreary waste of white barren sand, and melancholy, nodding pines. In the course of many miles, no cheerful cottage has blest my eyes. All seems dreary, savage and desert; and was it for this such sums of money, such streams of British blood have been lavished away? Oh, thou dear land, how dearly hast thou purchased this habitation for bears and wolves. Dearly has it been purchased, and at a price far dearer still it will be kept. My heart dies within me, while I view it.

-Schaw,Janet   b.c.1730
c.1776  On her first sight of the country around Cape Fear. Journal of a Lady of Quality; BeingtheNarrative of aJourney from Scotland to theWest Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years1774 to1776.

Life is too short to waste on the admiration of one man.

-Scott, Rose
Her habitual response to offers of marriage. Quoted in Jennifer Uglow (ed) The Macmillan Dictionary ofWomen's Biography (2nd edn,1989).

I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'Julian and Maddalo', l.14^16.

   Waste of Blood, and waste of Tears, Waste of youth's most precious years, Waste of ways the saints have trod, Waste of Glory, waste of God, War!

-'Woodbine Willie'
  More Rough Rhymes of a Padre,'Waste'.

   To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens