Quotes About Value

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.

The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar" .

But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.

Let's respect women for the value - let's respect everyone, men and women, for the value they bring to the workplace.

You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.

Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.

In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.