Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

“There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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

“It was evident that, both on account of the feudal system and the aristocratic government, a private man was not worth so much in Canada as in the United States; and, if your wealth in any measure consists in manliness, in originality and independence, you had better stay here. How could a peaceable, freethinking man live neighbor to the Forty-ninth Regiment? A New-Englander would naturally be a bad citizen, probably a rebel, there,—certainly if he were already a rebel at home.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)