Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

“For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)