Quotes About Value

It was ugly and precious all at once.

And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?

One good thing bout the way he never do any work round the place, us never miss him when he gone.

It is a way of saying you must not live too much in your head. It is a way of reminding you to stay in your emotions, no matter how nutty they are; it is a way of saying, also, that craziness has value.

A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something.

You'd be surprised how good writing matters when you're going after money.

One of the biggest things that's so toxic about ableism and capitalism is this idea that our worth is based on our productivity. We are interdependent. We know there's more to our worth than just whether we're taxpayers or whether we can work fort or more hours a week

There was a certain thing I did not get from my mother. There is a lack, a gap, a void. How's that? But in it's place, she has given me something else. Something, I would argue, that is far more valuable. I think I can get up now. She has given me the way out.

time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.

it is interesting to note and also ironic that cigarettes only seem precious to us when we aren't smoking. When we are smoking, we take it for granted and we're barely even aware that we are doing it.

I have no other possessions of value but my soul.

You are a pot of gold, don't think I don' realize it.

Later, she would question what life might have been like with someone who saw her as more than a gleaming trophy—a prize who began to lose her luster the moment she was won.

JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

I can give you my word of honor. And pray what may be the value of that? inquired the amused Regent. Monsieur, it is worth its weight in gold.

So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth!

MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property.

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed. The question, Is life worth living? has been much discussed; particularly by those who think it is not, many of whom have written at great length in support of their view and by careful observance of the laws of health enjoyed for long terms of years the honors of successful controversy.

There's nothing worth less than what men think of you after you're back in the mud.

It's a crime, when you think about how little time we get, that a man should ever be bored. When you are lying on your death bead, I expect you regret those weeks wasted more than your worst mistakes.

Gold and silver is everything to everyone. Some of us have enough of it to pretend otherwise.

Very little worth anything is ever given away.

Shit at least makes flowers grow. Honour isn't even that useful.

Minden varázslatnak ára van, és azt senki sem fizeti meg szívesen.