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Quotes About Value

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.
~ Eric Hoffer
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.
~ Mark Twain
Clearly a black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich.
~ Michael Steele
Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.
~ Moderata Fonte
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
~ Quintilian
A man often pays dear for a small frugality.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.
~ Alveda King
Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
~ Carl Sandburg
A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.
~ Marilyn Monroe
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
~ Quentin Crisp
Its easy to gauge the worth of a man, just ask them what they think of Yoko Ono.
~ Owen Pallett
Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.
~ Henry Ford
An inch in a man's nose is much.
~ Henry George Bohn
All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.
~ Hermann Nothnagel
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.
~ Jane Austen
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
~ John Tillotson
The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.
~ John Tillotson