The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
Izaak Walton

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
Thurgood Marshall

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
George Santayana

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale

This way of life is worth defending.
George W. Bush

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
Jon Bon Jovi

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
Emile M. Cioran

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Emile M. Cioran

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Aesop

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
Emo Philips

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
Emo Philips

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Samuel Adams

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
Truman Capote

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
John Ruskin

A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
Rita Rudner