Quotes About Value

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.

Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

"What is your fortune, my pretty maid?" "My face is my fortune, sir," she said.

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.

Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost.

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.

Generally the man with a good wife, or the woman with a good husband, or the children with good parents discover too late the goodness they overlooked while it was in full bloom.

Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.

A true friend is the best possession.

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him; a new friend is as new wine.

None is so rich as to throw away a friend.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

Life is worth being lived, but not worth being discussed all the time.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.