There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Tom Robbins

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
Gustave Flaubert

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
Gustave Flaubert

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Ezra Pound

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
Ezra Pound

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
Ezra Pound

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges

Good words are worth much, and cost little.
George Herbert

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
Edwin Land

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
Samuel Johnson

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
Paul Samuelson

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

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.
Craig Ferguson

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

I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
Naomi Campbell

I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
Naomi Campbell

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Henry James