Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

“It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil—viz. the deadly atheism which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist; and that the attainment of a high ideal is a hopeless chimera.”
—Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910)

“Cassius. Will you dine with me tomorrow?
Casca. Ay, if I be alive, and your mind hold, and your dinner be worth the eating.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)