Quotes About Value

What you inherit from your father must first be earned before it's yours.

Lo que importa más nunca debe de estar a merced de lo que importa menos.

What glitters, lives but for the moment; what has real worth, survives for all posterity.

INQUIETUD: A aquel que está en mi poder, el mundo no le sirve de nada.

Of style or beauty of expression he would need to take no account, for the value of a book lies in its truth and its actuality rather than in its wording.

Be concerned with how you live than with how long

Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value. Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.

Contented children are valuable, as is the peace that surrounds them.

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Art doesn't have to matter to a lot of people to matter a lot.

If it's worth getting upset over, then go ahead, but is it really?

Better to have bad breath than no breath at all.

No churlish moralist ever uttered a falser maxim than that "Beauty is but skin deep." Why Beauty is so deep that nobody has ever got to the bottom of it.

Somewhere at a summer conference, I dropped several books casually on the ground and kicked them out of the way. A German student picked up the books, dusted them off gently. He said how he had worked for years to buy a few books. A book was his blood, and he bled when he saw it mishandled.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

The results of quality work last longer than the shock of high prices.

Better bread with water than cake with trouble.

COFFEE. — This is probably the favorite stimulant of most Americans... Coffee has no actual food value, except for a small quantity of sugar and protein which may be dissolved form it. It should be regarded as a stimulant, therefore, not as a true food.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respects, whether he chooses to be so or not.

A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.

One man's crappy software is another man's full time job.

He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.

What is bought is cheaper than a gift.