To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley

A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.
Bill Maher

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
John Ruskin

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
Claude Bernard

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
Freddie Mercury

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.
Terry Pratchett

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Ovid

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
Ovid

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Samuel Goldwyn

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
Patrick Henry

We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
Samuel Goldwyn

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Ross Perot

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.
Kofi Annan

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Democritus

A thing well done is worth doing.
Hugh Leonard

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Arthur C. Clarke

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
Arthur C. Clarke