Quotes About Value

They will be life to your soul and adornment to your neck.

Prize her, and she will exalt you; if you embrace her, she will honor you.

Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.

lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;

For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts.

Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.

For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her.

With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and righteousness.

My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.

For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked has little worth.

Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

Like a gold ring in a pigís snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

A wife of noble character is her husbandís crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.

Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food.

A lazy man does not roast his game, but a diligent man prizes his possession.

One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

Riches may ransom a manís life, but a poor man hears no threat.

Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.

The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but many are those who love the rich.

The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the effort of fools is folly.