Quotes About Value

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

The idea that life is essentially based on intellect, and that intellect is accepted in practical life as the most valuable of our mental energies, goes hand in hand with the growth of a money economy.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.

A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.

Those who have tried meekness know the importance of being important.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

All this data leads us to a direct examination of the reasons the unchurched avoid Christian churches. The biggest issue is a perceived lack of value.

For no one's authority ought to rank so high as to set a value on his words and terms even though nothing clear and determinate lies behind them.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

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

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

Youth is the only season for enjoyment, and the first twenty-five years of one's life are worth all the rest of the longest life of man, even though those five-and-twenty be spent in penury and contempt, and the rest in the possession of wealth, honors, respectability.

I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.

have no illusions about your personal courage, but remember that you are no use to me dead.

I recently bought a book of free verse. For $12.

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.

As for time, all men have it in abundance.

George Colman (the Younger)

No more could belief in Jesus' resurrection have caused the church to attribute atoning value to his death. The source of a theology of Jesus' death must go back to Jesus himself.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

Money is not a magic wand but a measuring stick, not wealth but a gauge of it.