Worth Quotes

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.

Charles Caleb Colton

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

Albion W. Small

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Everything worth doing is exhausting.

John Polanyi

Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.

George Nathan

He that bears himself like a gentleman, is Worth to have been born a gentleman.

George Chapman

The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.

Orson Scott Card

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow's; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Benjamin Franklin

Never be ashamed! There's some who will hold it against you, but they are not worth bothering with.

J. K. Rowling

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Gore Vidal

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it

Bertrand Russell

Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

Nora Ephron

A well-aimed spear is worth three.

Tad Williams

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

Mark Twain

Conversation, which is friendship\'s mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.

Marcel Proust

A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.

Hart Crane

A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

Samuel Goldwyn

Nothing can be of great worth or holy which is the work of builders and mechanics.

Zeno

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee

Marcus Aurelius

You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law.

Lyn Beth Neylon

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Mahatma Gandhi

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Oprah Winfrey

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual

Galileo Galilei