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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 What is aught but as 'tis valued? - William Shakespeare (Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle. (Albany:) O Goneril, You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Goneril & Albany at IV, ii) Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle Before so noble and so great a figure Be stamped upon it. - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (Angelo at I, i) O, how thy worth with manners may I sing When thou art all the better part of me? What can mine own praise to mine own self bring, And what is't but mine own when I praise thee? - William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXIX I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me. - William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John (Arthur at II, i) Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows! - Percy Bysshe Shelley Beauties that from worth arise are like the grace of deities. - Sir John Suckling It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first. - Jonathan Swift, Tale of a Tub--Dedication I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere. - Lord Alfred Tennyson The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet. (the Devil and Shakespeare.) - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Shakespeare Dead? (ch. III) All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. - Edmund Waller, Miscellanies (I, l. 163) But though that place I never gain, Herein lies comfort for my pain: I will be worthy of it. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, I Will be Worthy of It It is easy enough to be prudent, When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within no voice of sin Is luring your soul away; But it's only a negative virtue Until it is tried by fire, And the life that is worth the honor of earth, Is the one that resists desire. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Worth While The foolish and vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad. [Sp., Siempre acostumbra hacer el vulgo necio, De le bueno y lo malo igual aprecio.] - Tomas de Yriarte (Iriarte), Fables (XXVIII) Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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