“Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.”

“If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.”

“For a brief time I was here; and for a brief time I mattered.”

“Don't waste the Earth - It is our Jewel!”

“Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.”

“Is there a place
here for the spirit? Is there time
on this brief platform for anything
other than mind's failure to explain itself?”

“The Beardmore Glacier is not difficult in fine weather, but on our return we did not get a single completely fine day; this with a sick companion enormously increased our anxieties.”

“We chased our pleasures here,
Dug our treasures there,
But can you still recall
The time we cried?
Break on through to the other side!”

“Our charms depart all on their own, so pluck the bloom.
For if you don't, it meets a wasted doom.”
Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona; carpite florem, Qui, nisi carptus erit, turpiter ipse cadet.

“Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.”