Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

“Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1809–1894)

“To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“Brittle beauty that nature made so frail,
Whereof the gift is small, and short the season,
Flow’ring today, tomorrow apt to fail,
Tickle treasure, abhorred of reason,
Dangerous to deal with, vain, of none avail,
Costly in keeping, passed not worth two peason,”
—Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)