Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

    “In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.... A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice—is often the means of their regeneration.”
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

    “Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
    Throughout the sensual world proclaim,
    One crowded hour of glorious life
    Is worth an age without a name.”
    —Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809)