Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

“We’ll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.”
—18th-century Scottish proverb, collected in James Kelly, Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs, no. 351 (1721)

“To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)