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A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd, In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd. - William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, Doomes-day--The Fifth Houre Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having. - Elizabeth Arden To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless. - Honore de Balzac I care not twopence. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Coxcomb (act V, sc. I) They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, and tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. - Bible, Hebrews (ch. XI, v. 37-38) 'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call; For what is worth, in anything, But so much money as 't will bring? - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 463) This was the penn'worth of his thought. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. II, canto III) Nothing common can seem worthy of you. [Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.] - Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus), to Caesar Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. - Henry Fielding You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen. - Lord John Arbutnoth Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone, in the London "Times" Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence). - General Ferdinand Foch, his favorite expression, hence his nickname "General Deux Sous" He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. - Benjamin Franklin, The Whistle Too good for great things and too great for good. - Thomas Fuller (1), Worthies I paid too much for it, but its worth it. - Samuel Goldwyn In native worth and honour clad. - Franz Joseph Haydn, Libretto of Creation It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle. - George Herbert 'Tis fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. XX, l. 290), (Pope's translation) This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), London (l. 175) It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. [Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.] - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes (164) Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing. - David Letterman An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege. - Frederic Rowland Marvin, Companionship of Books (p. 318) My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass. [Fr., Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je bois dans mon verre.] - Louis Charles Alfred de Musset Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (epistle IV, 203) Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel. - Ezra Pound The game is not worth the candle. [Fr., Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle.] - Proverb, (French), quoted by Lord Chesterfield Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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