Quotes About Value

Well,' said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return once more to London, 'it has been a pretty business for me! I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what have I gained?' 'Experience,' said Holmes, laughing. 'Indirectly it may be of value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your existence.

However, I guess your time is of value, and we did not meet to talk about the cut of my socks.

You seem very anxious to lose your life." "To justify my life, Sir.

To a great mind, nothing is little," remarked Holmes, sententiously.

No me cabe duda que usted cree hacerme una lisonja comparándome con Dupin. Pero en mi opinión, Dupin era un hombre que valía muy poco. […] Sin duda, poseía algo de genio analítico; pero no era, en modo alguno, un fenómeno, según parece imaginárselo Poe.

Nothing a woman gives is worth having unless she gives it of her own free will.

Important describes what I have to do by April 14. Important describes my license renewed, my bills paid, payroll... Abby. You're not important. You're everything.

I have been found wanting, Natalie thought; I have made myself unnacceptable and am not worthy.

I think, for instance, that no one can really love a person who is not superior in every way.

Doctor, I wish you'd make in a month what I lose in a year. Then you'd say I was a friend of yours.

Take my husband, for instance. There's no greater bungler than my Nachman-Ber. Ever since I've known him, he hasn't earned two broken kopeks. Then what's he good for?

Money on paper is not even paper money," my mother says….

Don't you know that you can skin the bear in the forest, but you can't sell its hide there?

Meh onu umeh khayeynu—what do folks like us count? Moshul kekheres hanishbor—we're just so much scrap in their eyes. Except that real scrap isn't thrown away so easily …

Money," says my mother, "can buy everything but a fever.

If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.

Valor não é quanto uma coisa custa, rapaz. Isso é lenda. Valor é quanto alguém está disposto a pagar. Ou ser pago

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]

Whoever possesses something that is at once valuable and fragile is afraid of other people's envy, in so far as he projects on to them the envy he would have felt in their place.

what we know to be useless, but expect civilization to value, is beauty;

Religion interferes with this play of selection and adaptation by forcing on everyone indiscriminately its own path to the attainment of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in reducing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world by means of delusion; and this presupposes the intimidation of the intelligence.