Quotes About Value

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.

Nothing is worth anything to dead men.

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something

It is truly regrettable that a person will treat a man who is valuable to him well, and a man who is worthless to him poorly.

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.