Quotes About Value

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

No one can say I married my husband for his money. I married him because he's a beautiful art object.

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.

Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.

Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]

Appreciate what you have while you have it and the beauty in what's there right now and try to preserve it for tomorrow.

People give up the earth for beauty.

There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be so. It is just the way our economic system is.

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.

Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

Their beauty was to the beauty of Miss Canal Zone as the glory of the Sun was to the glory of a lightning bug.

People strive hardest to save face, when the beauty they value is solely extrinsic.

Be careful who you call your friends. I'd rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

The best way to hold customers is to constantly figure out how to give them more for less.

Cost is more important than quality but quality is the best way to reduce cost.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.