Wastes

Famous quotes containing the word wastes:

“Go, lovely Rose—
Tell her that wastes her time and me
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

“Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)

“The soul has no assignments, neither cooks
Nor referees: it wastes its time.
It wastes its time.”
—Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)