Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765) Muslim religious person
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.74, p. 58
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“When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.”
Lord Goring, Act IV
An Ideal Husband (1895)
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Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765) Muslim religious person
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.74, p. 94
Religous Wisdom
“5214. To pay one in ones own Coin.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason […] When we waste time, we waste happiness.”
L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter
Stendhal book The Charterhouse of Parma
A la Scala, il est d'usage de ne faire durer qu'une vingtaine de minutes ces petites visites que l'on fait dans les loges.
Source: La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1839), Ch. 6
Mary Ruwart (1949) American scientist and libertarian activist
Source: Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression, (2003), p. 123