Quotes with worth

Quotes 281 till 300 of 418.

  • John Morley Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • David Letterman Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
    David Letterman
    American television host, comedian, writer, and producer (1947 - )
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  • Sir Walter Scott Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Abraham Cowley Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Billy Graham Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Betty Buckley T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Take notes on the spot: a note is worth a cartload of recollection.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ezra Pound Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • George Santayana That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Grit That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when he is gone.
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  • William Shakespeare That what we have, we prize not to the worth
    whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
    why, than we rack the value.
    Much ado about nothing (1598)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Andrew Jackson The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Annie Dillard The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Alan Cohen The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Henry Home The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
    Henry Home
    British lawyer and writer (1696 - 1782)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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