A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.


Charles Dickens

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
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The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed
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So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.
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The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT
The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS)
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
NICHOLAS CHAMFORT
The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.
Irony is wasted on the stupid
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Youth is wasted on the young.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Life is wasted on the living.
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Money is wasted on the rich.
GILLIAN FLYNN
not wasted on government bureaucracy or frivolous projects.
JIM KOLBE
Auto Focus, ... A day without sex is a day wasted.
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“ A day without laughter are a day wasted”
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Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.
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A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.
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Wishing, yearning, demanding to be loved is wasted energy better spent on growing in love and care f...
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Time is one measure of life, ... Time wasted is life wasted, time saved is life saved.
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The future is just wasted on some people.
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I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix...
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Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
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He wasted his wishes on wishing.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
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Any time that is spent or wasted is a life wasted or spent.
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Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Wasted time means wasted lives.
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Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
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Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.
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Salvation not shared, is salvation wasted.
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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time
SOURCE UNKNOWN
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
ANON.
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
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Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.
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Time spent adding value is not wasted
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I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.
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We wasted the clock and wasted their legs.
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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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[McNealy has] wasted so much energy on bashing Microsoft, ... It's been a distraction.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Time is wasted when it is not being converted
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Nothing is wasted.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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All those Illinois fans probably think they wasted the scholarship on me.
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A penny saved is a penny wasted
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Each day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.
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Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.
GILLIAN FLYNN
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
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An unhappy life is a wasted life.
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DR. SHAILESH THAKER
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON
Worry is a wasted emotion. eMotion is power
LILY CHATTERJEE
No effort is every wasted.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
No time is wasted time
JIM HENSON
Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich. We
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I have wasted my hours.
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I have wasted my hours
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Sometimes to keep it together, you've got to leave it alone.
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Midnight after you're wasted . . .
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The last fifteen years, were our wasted years of nationhood.
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...life allowed to waste like a tap left running.
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from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen lat...
CHARLES DICKENS
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man...
CHARLES DICKENS
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo...
CHARLES DICKENS
Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.
CHARLES DICKENS
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his ta...
CHARLES DICKENS
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc...
CHARLES DICKENS
Some credit in being jolly.
CHARLES DICKENS
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
CHARLES DICKENS
Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
CHARLES DICKENS
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i...
CHARLES DICKENS
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS
Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are hi...
CHARLES DICKENS
Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
CHARLES DICKENS