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Worth Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes…
- No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost…
- There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read…
- A hug is worth a thousand words.
- Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and,…
- The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided…
- True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
- There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read…
- To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties…
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- The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. — Robert Baden-Powell
- No one can figure out your worth but you. — Pearl Bailey
- A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth… — Antonio Banderas
- Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books… — Russell Banks
- I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making. — Javier Bardem
- I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have… — Brigitte Bardot