The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Andrew Jackson

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
Steven Spielberg

When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
Jim Carrey

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
William Faulkner

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
Michelangelo

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

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
Rene Descartes

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.
Mia Hamm

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. Mencken

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Ambrose Bierce

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
Ambrose Bierce

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.
Marlene Dietrich

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
Jimmy Buffett

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
Clarence Darrow

You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.
Casey Stengel

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

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.
Norman Rockwell

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