WORTH

Related Subjects: Appearance, Character, Deserving, Excellence, Honesty, Merit, Price, Qualities, Usefulness

1. Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.—AESOP, The Fox and the Mask
   

2. It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.—AMIEL, Journal
   

3. Of whom the world was not worthy.—Bible, Hebrews 11:38
   

4. The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, Little Essays on Love and Virtue
   

5. A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face in letters of light.—EMERSON, Essays
   

6. The "value" or "worth" of a man, is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.—THOMAS HOBBES, Leviathan
   

7. Farewell! I did not know thy worth;
   But thou art gone, and now 'tis priz'd;
   So angels walk'd unknown on earth,
   But when they flew were recogniz'd.—THOMAS HOOD, To an Absentee
   

8. Slow rises worth, by poverty depress'd:
   But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold,
   Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, London
   

9. Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

10. Life is continually weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.—LOWELL, On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners
    

11. We cheat ourselves in cheating worth of wonder.
    Not the unwitting dead
    But we who leave the praise unsaid are plundered.—ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
    

12. Ye are worth thy weight of gold.—HENRY MEDWALL, Nature
    

13. Worthy things happen to the worthy.—PLAUTUS, Paenulus
    

14. It is no good hen, that cackles in your house and lays in another's.—Proverb
    

15. So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.—RABELAIS
    

16. When we assert that this or that has "value," we are giving expression to our emotions, not to a fact which would still be true if our personal feelings were different.—BERTRAND RUSSELL
    

17. Worth is by worth in every rank admired.—RICHARD SAVAGE, Epistle to Aaron Hill
    

18. They are worthy To inlay heaven with stars.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
    

19. I could have better spared a better man.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

20. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
    

21. Let there be some more test made of my metal,
    Before so noble and so great a figure Be stamp'd upon it.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

22. They are not China dishes, but very good dishes.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

23. They are but beggars that can count their worth.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

24. A man of worth
    In his own household will appear upright
    In the state also.—SOPHOCLES, Antigone
    

25. All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.—THOREAU, Journal
    

26. There buds the promise of celestial worth.—EDWARD YOUNG, The Last Day