Quotes
Quotes about Worth
And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And love is the sweetest thing on earth.
A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. [Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.]
Oh, dainty and delicious! Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius! Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus, Or titillate the palate of Silenus!
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]
And be the Spartan's epitaph on me-- "Sparta hath many a worthier son than he."
Yet at the resurrection we shall see A fair edition, and of matchless worth, Free from erratas, new in heaven set forth.
Every situation, every momentâis of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.
A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends whom we have lost, the few persons worth of being loved whom we leave behind us, and finally the memory of our stupidities and the assurance that they are now going to stop.
Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel. - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et reddere nescit.]
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long knownâthat the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
