Quotes About Value

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age appears to be best in four things, - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

A man explained inflation to his wife thus: 'When we married, you measured 36-24-36. Now you're 42-42-42. There's more of you, but you are not worth as much.'

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.

We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.

Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

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.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

You traded in your iPhone 4 for an extra half inch? Hope your girlfriend doesn't do the same.