In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
Pearl Bailey

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
Carlos Santana

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
Eric Clapton

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Samuel Butler

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Samuel Butler

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
Mary McLeod Bethune

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
Mary Mcleod Bethune

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
Alice James

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
Saul Bellow

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Walter Scott

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
David Bowie

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.
Robert Browning Hamilton

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Walter Scott

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
Eugene Ionesco

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.
Anna Quindlen

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.
Thomas Starr King

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud