Quotes About Value

Paris is well worth a Mass.

Useful professions are clearly meant for the public, but those whose utility is more dubious can only justify their existence by assuming that the public is meant for them.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.

When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was deserting. If everyone of any value leaves France, what will remain of France?

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Time cannot be saved, it can only be spent, and if not spent wisely and well, it is wasted.

Man's life is of God, not of his goods, however abundant they may be.

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

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

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Vi løskjøper oss fra synet av elendighet ved hjelp av kobberskillinger, men det er fordyrt fortiggerenogfor billig for oss

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.

Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it.

An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.