Quotes
Quotes about Worth
The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Before green apples blush, Before green nuts embrown, Why, one day in the country Is worth a month in town.
The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne; He held them sixpence all too deere, Therefore he call'd the taylor lowne.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion; 'Tis petty larceny: not such his deed Who robs us of our fame, our best possession.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
With evil omens from the harbour sails The ill-fated ship that worthless Arnold bears; God of the southern winds, call up thy gales, And whistle in rude fury round his ears.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than the years; And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth, That I should open to the list'ning air How many worthy princes' bloods were shed To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope, To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms And make pretense of wrong that I have done him; When all, for mine, if I may call offense, Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence; Which love to all, of which thyself art one, Who now reproved'st me for't--
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing. [Lat., Vile latens virtus.]
