Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

I hate wasting time.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.

What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

We're burnin' daylight!

Ten minutes are not just one-sixth of your hourly pay; ten minutes is a piece of yourself. Divide yourself into ten units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activities. Most things still remain to be done.

Economy is the thief of time.

It’s not about how much you sleep. It’s what you do while you’re awake.

This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.

For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which is to say they are wasted.

One intense hour is worth a dreamy day.

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.