Waste/shortcomings

Famous quotes containing the words waste and/or shortcomings:

    “The world is too much with us; late and soon,
    Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)