Famous quotes containing the word worth:
“The sturdy Irish arms that do the work are of more worth than oak or maple. Methinks I could look with equanimity upon a long street of Irish cabins, and pigs and children reveling in the genial Concord dirt; and I should still find my Walden Wood and Fair Haven in their tanned and happy faces.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than hes worth to
season.
Nay, hes a thief too: have you not heard men say,
That Time comes stealing on by night and day?”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“I strove with none, for none was worth my strife:
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art:”
—Walter Savage Landor (17751864)
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