Quotes About Value

If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Not all men are worthy of love.

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.