Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it.
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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.
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
Do you know what directors go through? It's just hell. Like, why do I work so hard - to think I'm only going to see this movie five times and then never see it again 'cause I'm so sick of it? What is it worth, honestly?
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.