Quotes About Value

Nothing could be more forlorn than the manner in which Madame Vauthier had furnished the two rooms. It seemed as though the woman let rooms with the express purpose that no one should stay in them. Evidently the bed, chairs, tables, bureau, secretary, curtains, came from forced sales at auction, articles massed together in lots as having no separate intrinsic value.

Ce matin j'ignorais ce qu'était l'argent, vous me l'avez appris, ce n'est qu'un moyen, voilà tout.

Who rises the glass, also rises the price!

Dear doctor," said the good priest, "you will soon comprehend the grandeur of religion and the value of its practices; you will find its philosophy in human aspects far higher than that of the boldest sceptics.

Hay ciertas personas que no tienen ya el mismo valor una vez separadas de los rostros, de las cosas y de los lugares que les sirven de marco.

Plus sa vie est infâme,plus l'homme y tient; elle est alors une protestation,une vengeance de tous les instants.

Las personas que disfrutan en provincias de algún tipo de consideración y que encuentran a cada paso una prueba de su importancia, no se acostumbran a esta súbita y total pérdida de su valor.

In revolutions, as in storms at sea, solid worth goes to the bottom, and the waves bring lightweight stuff to the surface.

Love is a maker of false coin, continually changing copper pennies into gold-pieces, and sometimes turning its real gold into copper.

Money has never yet lost the smallest opportunity of proving its own stupidity.

Manche Menschen sind wie Nullen, sie brauchen eine Zahl, die vor ihnen steht, und ihr Nichts erlangt dann zehnfachen Wert.

Timpul este singurul capital al oamenilor care n-au alt? avere decât inteligen?a.

Monsieur, I owe you a million thanks — — " "A million thanks," thought he to himself, "that is too many; it does not mean one.

Lucien ne reconnut pas sa Louise dans cette chambre froide, sans soleil, à rideaux passés, dont le carreau frotté semblait misérable, où le meuble était usé, de mauvais goût, vieux ou d'occasion. Il est en effet certaines personnes qui n'ont plus ni le même aspect ni la même valeur, une fois séparées des figures, des choses, des lieux qui leur servent de cadre. Les

I see the enormous value of a mother's presence because I live everyday with its absence.

I deliver her immortal true love and all I get is a snub. She's beautiful but selfish. Is that what eternal life does to a person? I think death makes life sweeter, and knowing how much I have to lose makes every day more valuable. As long as I'm here, I won't waste another day.

objects that he very rarely either looked at or thought about, though the loss of them would have caused him to go half mad with rage and chagrin.

When, on his return to Lud-in-the-Mist, he had been twitted for having wasted so much time on such an unworthy object, he had answered that a pig was thrall to the same master as a Mayor, and that it needed as much skill to cure the one as the other; adding that a good fiddler enjoys fiddling for its own sake, and that it is all the same to him whether he plays at a yokel's wedding or a merchant's funeral.

Friends are treasures.

Aunque me habló con loco entusiasmo de la belleza de su novia, esta apreciación suya de la hermosura en cuestión no tenía para mí ningún valor.

El lujo era para ella lo que el cristal tallado para una esencia: su envase natural.

A revelation from God, if it were written only in the Hebrew or Greek, would be considered of sufficient value to recompense the labor of learning the language.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Let us say that kindness costs me so little and rewards me well.