Quotes About Value

It's hell when you're too good to make money.

You know there's a lot of you I've loved and it hasn't been entirely your money.

the best of you I like more than you think.

Money is like sex," I said. "It seems much more important when you don't have any…

For I know that all things have their price,especially when they are advertised as being free

Once you have been poor a long time you gain a certain respect for money.

blood money blood money my god they must think I love this like the others but it's for bread and beer and rent blood money

Get a man who works for nothing and you get a man who just likes to hang around. I

The poem has some value, believe me. It keeps you from going totally mad.

Then he spoke. "I just want to find out. I just want to find out for myself." "I don't come cheap." "How much?" "6 bucks an hour." "That doesn't seem like much money." "Does to me. You got a photo of your wife?

Kuolema itsessään ei ole kamalaa, vaan ne elämät jotka ihmiset elävät, tai eivät elä kunnes kuolevat. He eivät arvosta elämiään, he kusevat elämiensä päälle, paskantavat niille.

things begin to lose their natural value as they near human endeavor. nothing against Beethoven: he did fine for what he was but I wouldn't want him on my rug with one leg over his head while he was licking his balls.

What this suggests is that, contrary to economists, the discount rate accounts for only part of our relationship to the future. People are concerned about future generations. Even if the logic is hard to parse, they think that humanity's fate is worth more than an apartment.

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind? [To William Graham 3 July 1881]

My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I have heard it said that the success of a work abroad is the best test of its enduring value. I doubt whether this is at all trustworthy; but judged by this standard my name ought to last for a few years.

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

Where had he been? Drinking, obviously. Then she started cataloging all the ways he was worthless. On fool impulse, as his most potent available argument against Lily, Bud stuck his hands into his coat pockets and pulled out the many bundles of hundreds and threw them on the bedspread. If you were honest and stupid, you worked a couple of lifetimes for that kind of money, doled out by the hour in pocket-change amounts by asswipe bosses.

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

He picked out a little twenty-dollar gold piece

When time is remote enough nobody amounts to much.

Rich seed of virtue lying hid in poor leaves!