Quotes with worth-while

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  • Carter Burwell Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • William Cowper Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Anthony Holden Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bob Newhart Chuck Lorre and I had been talking about doing one of his shows for a while. I said I'd like to do 'The Big Bang Theory,' because I think it's the best written, most intelligent show on television.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Phyllis Diller Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
    Phyllis Diller
    American actress and stand-up (1917 - 2012)
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  • Bob Dylan Come gather 'round people
    Wherever you roam
    And admit that the waters
    Around you have grown.
    And accept it that soon
    You'll be drenched to the bone.
    If your time to you is worth savin'
    Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone
    For the times they are a-changin'.
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Joseph Stowell Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.
    Joseph Stowell
    American Christian author
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  • William Shakespeare Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Andrew Grove Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Charles Churchill Could it be worth thy wondrous waste of pains I to publish to the world thy lack of brains?
    The Rosciad (1761)
    Charles Churchill
    British poet (1731 - 1764)
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  • Edward Hoagland Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Lewis Carroll Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Steven Wright Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • N. Rowe Death is the privilige of human nature and life without it were not worth our taking.
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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