Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

“If you would not be forgotten,
as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth reading
or do things worth the writing.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

“The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

“I lay the mind’s contents
Bare, as upon a table,
And ask, in a time of war,
Whether there is still
To a mind frivolously dull
Anything worth living for.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)