Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

“Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case, and pay the cost.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Slenderness in old age is worth more than a thousand ounces of gold.”
—Chinese proverb.

“No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.”
—Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)