Quotes About Value

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE is among the most plentiful, and the cheapest forms of service which may be had!

affliction was not a liability, but an asset of great value.

The free schools of America, and the free public libraries, do not impress people because they are free.

Uma das coisas estranhas no ser humano é valorizar só aquilo que tem um preço.

A publisher of books, which sell for a nickel, made a discovery that should be worth much to publishers generally. He learned that many people buy titles, and not contents of books.

Time is the coin of your Life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. And when you spend it, spend it wisely so that you get the most for your expenditure.

The Danish plant physiologist Wilhelm Johannsen gave Mendel's factors a new name: genes. "As to the nature of the 'genes,'" Johannsen warned, "it is as yet of no value to propose any hypothesis.

What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

Ustedes sabrán en qué desperdician el tiempo y el dinero. Yo me quedo leyendo, que la vida es breve.

It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.

Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

Sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

Los regalos se hacen por el gusto del que regala, no por mérito del que recibe.

Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return.

Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.

Better still, I pay you. And I pay you very well, which is the only real form of flattery in this whorish world.

Making money isn't hard in itself,' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

You cannot understand such things right now, because you're young. But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

but in good time you'll see that what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

que la vida pasa volando, especialmente la parte que vale la pena vivir.

Life flies by, especially the bit that's worth living.

Esta vida vale la pena vivirla por tres o cuatro cosas, y lo demás es abono para el campo.