Quotes About Value

One man's priority is another man's extravagence.

Makes of men date, like makes of car.

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

What can money do to console a man with a headache?

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

If man is not special, if he's not deeply different from any other thing, then there's no good reason not to treat him just like any other thing when it's convenient for us to do so.

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.