Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

    A reading machine, always wound up and going,
    He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
    James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    If you would not be forgotten,
    as soon as you are dead and rotten,
    either write things worth reading
    or do things worth the writing.
    Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    A swarm of bees in May
    Is worth a load of hay;
    A swarm of bees in June
    Is worth a silver spoon;
    A swarm of bees in July
    Is not worth a fly.
    —Unknown. A Swarm of bees in May (l. 1–6)