Quotes About Value

I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.

They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up half of my wealth.

the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.

How much salt water thrown away in waste To season love, that of it doth not taste.

Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?

agar vaght ra talaf konid zamani fara miresad ke vaght shoma ra talaf mikonad.

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

If it be love indeed, tell me how much. There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved. Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.

Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor-John.

She is herself a dowry.

Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a sieve.

His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them: and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful? Or is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye?

For youth is bought more oft than begged or borrowed.

the worth of that is that which it contains, and that is this, and this with thee remains.

Aquí está el oro, peor veneno para el alma; en este mundo asesina mucho más que las tristes mezclas que no puedes vender. Soy yo quien te vende veneno, no tú a mí.

for naught so vile on the Earth doth live, but to the Earth some special good doth give

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Non si apprezza il valore di quel che abbiamo mentre ne godiamo, ma appena lo perdiamo e ci manca, lo sopravvalutiamo, e gli troviamo il pregio che il possesso rendeva invisibile, fino a che era nostro.

youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

I l'esperança d'una joia és gairebé una joia comparable a la joia de l'esperança atesa.

Only I have left to say, 'More is thy due than more than all can pay'.

You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely.