Wasteful Habits Quotes

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

When I like something, I wear it into the ground, then really regret it.

I can take five showers in one day.

The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so utilized can be put to better advantage, and the consequences will be wonderful.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim.

To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong.

My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

I can't tell you how much money I waste on plaid shirts, whisky that I hate the taste of, and Moleskine notebooks that I never write in.

Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.

The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.

Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

The Happy Warrior of Squandermania.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.

People on sets can be unbearably wasteful in general.

We would sit in the living room, drink a case of Busch beer, and throw the empty cans into the kitchen for no reason whatsoever, beyond the fact that it was the most overtly irresponsible way for any two people to live.

My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.