Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

“I looked at my daughters, and my boyhood picture, and appreciated the gift of parenthood, at that moment, more than any other gift I have ever been given. For what person, except one’s own children, would want so deeply and sincerely to have shared your childhood? Who else would think your insignificant and petty life so precious in the living, so rich in its expressiveness, that it would be worth partaking of what you were, to understand what you are?”
—Gerald Early (20th century)

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
—E.M. Cioran (1911–1995)

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