Worth Quotes

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.

I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.