Frittered Away Quotes

#1. Believe me, it is the sign of a great man, and one who is above human error, not to allow his time to be frittered away: he has the longest possible life simply because whatever time was available he devoted entirely to himself.

Seneca.

#2. Alberta had always had many forms of idling. She frittered away her time with virtuosity.

Cora Sandel

#3. How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!

Anandamayi Ma

#4. I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.

Paul Morphy

#5. Didn't anybody respect tradition, making food by hand, the slow way? Hadn't anyone frittered away a Sunday afternoon at the bodega gorging themselves on the bounty of the land - the sparkling wine, the beautifully constructed chorizo?

Michael Paterniti

#6. Or perhaps it is a matter of those despised parts of our natures that are normally frittered away as harmless foibles giving rise in times of war to monsters.

Kanan Makiya

#7. Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.

Ken Bates

#8. Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.

Mason Cooley

#9. Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race.

Michael Phelps

#11. It doesn't matter if i'm crazy, as long as the madness helps me survive

A.G. Howard

#12. I think it is easier to do bad things than to do good things. And there is something in that basic fact, some little clue to the meaning of the universe.

Donald Miller

#13. While we wait, God builds our faith in His promises.

James MacDonald

#14. Oftentimes when you have the federal government or others step in and start to raise minimum wage, what happens is you take away or reduce some people's opportunity to grab the bottom rung of the economic ladder to get the opportunities and the skills that you need to move up that economic ladder.

Kevin Madden