Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

“We’ll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.”
—18th-century Scottish proverb, collected in James Kelly, Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs, no. 351 (1721)

“Most people know no other way of judging men’s worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“He loved to sit silent in a corner of his club and listen to the loud chattering of politicians, and to think how they all were in his power—how he could smite the loudest of them, were it worth his while to raise his pen for such a purpose.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)