Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

    “The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune;
    His jewels are his good children.”
    —Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)

    “A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “You’re looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it’s hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.”
    —William Faulkner (1897–1962)