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

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

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Plato

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
Billy Graham

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
Karl Marx

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Voltaire

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William Osler

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Thomas A. Edison

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Thomas A. Edison

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius

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

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
George Orwell

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Amelia Earhart

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes