Quotes About Value

If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?

For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!

No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.

But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that ... I was worthy of being number one to a man.

Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.

The man that put that hurt look in your eyes, could be worth everything, or nothing at all.

The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?

You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.