Quotes About Values

To the devil with your pearldrops and your parroty manners. A filled mind and an apt wit will earn you all the respect any man has the means to deserve.

A pity, she thought, that taking a stand on moral issues had to prove so lonely these days

If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.

The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere.

After all, he thinks conscience is a sort of vermiform appendix. Chop it out and you'll feel all the better.

In my day one had to have either brains or beauty to get on -- preferably both. Nowadays nothing seems to be required but a total lack of figure.

I haven't time and I don't want the money. Why should I? I'm not a dean or an actress.

principles have become more dangerous than passions. It's getting uncommonly easy to kill people in large numbers, and the first thing a principle does—if it really is a principle—is to kill somebody." "'The real tragedy is not the conflict of good with evil but of good with good'; that means a problem with no solution.

How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

Harriet grinned at Betty Armstrong, hearing the familiar academic wrangle begin. Before ten minutes had passed, somebody had introduced the word values. An hour later they were still at it. Finally the Bursar was heard to quote: God made the integers; all else is the work of man. Oh, bother! cried the Dean. Do let's keep mathematics out of it. And physics. I cannot cope with them.

It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

I think we have different value systems. —Arthur Well mine's better. —Ford

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

It seemed to me, said Wonko the sane, that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a packet of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

Ford had his own code of ethics. It wasn't much of one, but it was his and he stuck by it, more or less. One rule he made was never to buy his own drinks. He

the great thing about being the only species that makes a distiction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

They believe in "peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms".

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

no one was really poor—at least no one worth speaking of.

I don't see why being smart and grown up has anything to do with abandoning the things you believed in when you were a kid.

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.