Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Health is worth more than learning.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest -- whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories -- comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact] have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

One today is worth two tomorrows.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]