“Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.”

“Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.”

“We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.”

“For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.”

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”

“The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions…. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.”

“Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time and you'll have the time of your life.”

“I didn't argue that the war in Vietnam was immoral; it was merely stupid and a horrendous waste of time, money, and lives based on a flawed premise.”

“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”