He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. Sydney Smith
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. Mary Wollstonecraft
The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese. Cindy Sheehan