What is aught but as 'tis valued? [ William Shakespeare ]

They love most who are least valued. [ Proverb ]

Health is not valued till sickness comes. [ Proverb ]

Blessings are not valued till they are gone. [ Proverb ]

The jewel is not to he valued for the cabinet. [ Proverb ]

Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown;
Both most are valued where they best are known. [ Lyttelton ]

The nurse is valued till the child be done sucking. [ Proverb ]

A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his goings. [ Proverb ]

I have heard they are the most lewd impostors,
Made of all terms and shreds, no less beliers
Of great men's favours than their own vile medicines,
Which they will utter upon monstrous oaths;
Selling that drug for two pence ere they part.
Which they have valued at twelve crowns before. [ Ben Jonson ]

We are valued in this world at the rate at which we desire to be valued. [ La Bruyère ]

Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise. [ Crabbe ]

We are valued either too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Friendship is more firmly secured by lenity toward failings than by attachment to excellence; the former is valued as a kindness, which cannot be claimed; the latter is exalted to the payment of a debt to merit. [ W. B. Clulow ]

When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face, - compare notes and chat the hour away. [ Hazlitt ]