Worth Quotes

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

Wait, Alcohol, Stop

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret Mead

Sum, Add, Accurate

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Andrew Jackson

Good, Government, Long

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

Integrity, Keep, Value

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

Age, Women, Fear

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

Education, Mind, While

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

Life, Age, Name

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
Casey Stengel

Baseball, Hot, Handle

A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin

Book, Reading, Buying

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Joseph Addison

True, Rather, Writer

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, May, Big

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Rudyard Kipling

Run, Distance, Minute

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

Good, Film, Theatre

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey

Friendship, Time, Place

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei

Science, Humble, Single

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

Humor, Him, Enough

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
Suze Orman

Life, Happiness, Happy

The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
Andy Rooney

Time, Great, Game

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
Jon Bon Jovi

Women, Fighting, Ask

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

Good, Done, Through

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Andrew Jackson

Takes, Believes, Error

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
Harry S. Truman

Learning, After, Learn

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

Life, Living, Question

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Suffering, Bring

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo

Best, Self, Become

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas Fuller

God, Sadness, Serve

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Richard P. Feynman

Person, Explain, Average

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
Gilbert Parker

Life, Morning, Death

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
William Hazlitt

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