Every man has his value. [ French Proverb ]
Adversity, sage useful guest,
Severe instructor, but the best.
It is from thee alone we know
Justly to value things below. [ Somerville ]
Ask why God made the gem so small,
And why so huge the granite?
Because God meant mankind should set
The higher value on it. [ Burns ]
The value of a thought cannot be told. [ Bailey ]
Abundance changes the value of things. [ Terence ]
I wonder did you ever count
The value of one human fate;
Or sum the infinite amount
Of one heart's treasure, and the weight
Of life's one venture, and the whole
Concentrate purpose of a soul. [ Adelaide A. Procter ]
Let ignorance talk, learning has its value. [ La Fontaine ]
Wooing thee,
I found thee of more value
Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags;
And it is the very riches of thyself
That now I aim at. [ William Shakespeare ]
Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune. [ Rochefoucauld ]
He that plays his money ought not to value it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is our actual work which determines our value. [ George Bancroft ]
Style is what gives value and currency to thought. [ Amiel ]
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. [ Horace ]
As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver. [ Ovid ]
The one thing in the world of value is the active soul. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward. [ Ovid ]
Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value. [ George MacDonald ]
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty. [ Samuel Smiles ]
If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one. [ Proverb ]
The human soul needs to be mated to develop all its value. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
That which hath its value from fancy is not very valuable. [ Proverb ]
Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's counsel. [ George Chapman ]
One knows the value of pleasure only after he has suffered pain. [ Fontanelle ]
The toil of life alone teaches us to value the blessings of life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. [ Dr. Johnson ]
You will be of as much value to others as you have been to yourself. [ Cicero ]
They that value not praise, will never do any thing worthy of praise. [ Proverb ]
The labour of life alone teaches us to value the good things of life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The true value of a man's book is determined by what he does not write. [ Carlyle ]
Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner it is bestowed. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value. [ Francis Quarles ]
Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence. [ Lavater ]
It is the merit of those who praise that makes the value of the commendation. [ Mlle. de Lespinasse ]
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
A man's opinions, look you, are generally of much more value than his arguments. [ Holmes ]
Those presents are always the most acceptable which owe their value to the giver. [ Ovid ]
Men are like money: we must take them for their value, whatever may be the effigy. [ Mme. Necker ]
Rhetoric adorns and enlarges a thing with words, but is of no value without logic. [ Luther ]
Did a person but know the value of an enemy, he would purchase him with pure gold. [ Abbe de Raunci ]
It is better to have one friend of great value, than many friends of little value. [ Anaxarchus ]
The foolish and vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad. [ Yriarte ]
Love of truth shows itself in being able everywhere to find and value what is good. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Sincerity makes the least man to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. [ Spurgeon ]
I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow. [ Washington Irving ]
A cock, having found a pearl, said that a grain of corn would be of more value to him. [ Pierre Leroux ]
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. [ Colton ]
Every man stamps his value on himself; the price we challenge for ourselves is given us. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]
A great man knows the value of greatness: he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it. [ Landor ]
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience. [ Izaak Walton ]
Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
We know the value of a fortune when we have gained it, and that of a friend when we have lost it. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
If the true did not possess an objective value, human curiosity would have died out centuries ago. [ Renan ]
The less one sees and knows men, the higher one esteems them; for experience teaches their real value. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value. [ Emerson ]
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [ Cicero ]
The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot. [ Dr. Johnson ]
O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements. [ Chalmers ]
It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it. [ Bruyere ]
To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself. [ Burke ]
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. [ Sir W. Temple ]
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. [ Carlyle ]
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to its real value, but to the value our fancies set upon it. [ Addison ]
A sentimentalist is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of a single thing. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men. [ Cicero ]
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value; for it is the representative of eternity. [ Goethe ]
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. [ Cicero ]
The little and short sayings of nice and excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds. [ Tillotson ]
I do not number my borrowings; I weigh them, and had I designed to raise their value by their number, I had made them twice as many. [ Montaigne ]
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use. [ Bailey ]
The mind of a thoroughly well-informed man is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust and everything priced above its proper value. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Experience is of no ethical value, it is simply the name we give our mistakes. It demonstrates that the future will be the same as the past. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read. [ Colton ]
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure. [ Emerson ]
We never know the true value of friends. While they live we are too sensitive of their faults: when we have lost them we only see their virtues. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment. [ Johnson ]
There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us. [ Brydges ]
I value the education of the intellect not for its present joy alone, but for the greater growth it gives, the enlargement of the cup to take in more and higher joys. [ Parker ]
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. [ Johnson ]
Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. [ Lord Chesterfield ]
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit. [ Macaulay ]
We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity, than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect. [ Jane Porter ]
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it. [ Martial ]
The churchyard is the market-place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before. [ Baxter ]
Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more than all, it must be prayed for. [ Thomas Arnold ]
Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail. It is even heightened by sufferings. [ William Ellery Channing ]
Make use of time, if you love eternity. Yesterday cannot be recalled. Tomorrow cannot be assured. Today is only yours, and if you procrastinate, you lose, and lose forever. One today is worth two tomorrows. [ Euchiridion ]
Let the man who despises style, and says that he attends to the matter, recollect that if the lace is sold at a higher price than the noble metal, it owes its chief value to its elegance, and not to its material. [ Yriarte ]
Doubtless botany has its value; but the flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them; they are apt to stop preaching, though, so soon as we begin to dissect and botanize them. [ H. N. Hudson ]
All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little; something which they value far more than for its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life. [ Theodore Parker ]
In the life of a nation ideas are not the only things of value. Sentiment also is of great value; and the way to foster sentiment in a people, and to develop it in the young, is to have a well-recorded past, and to be familiar with it. [ Joseph Anderson ]
Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us. There does not live on earth the man, be his station what it may, that I despise myself compared with him. Man is made great or little by his own will. [ Schiller ]
Rhetoric is appealing to the passions instead of the reason of your auditors, and claiming that value for the workmanship which ought to be measured by the ore alone. An orator is one who can stamp such a value upon counterfeit coin as shall make it pass for genuine. [ Chatfield ]
Civilized society feels that manners are of more importance than morals, and the highest respectability is of less value than the possession of a good chef. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for cold entrees, nor an irreproachable private life for a bad dinner and poor wines. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us. [ Pilpay ]
Oratory is the huffing and blustering spoiled child of a semi-barbarous age. The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason; and the art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and readers wise enough to read. [ Colton ]
Liberty is one of the choicest gifts that heaven hath bestowed upon man, and exceeds in value all the treasures which the earth contains within its bosom, or the sea covers. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. [ Cervantes ]
It is in the time of trouble, when some to whom we may have looked for consolation and encouragement regard us with coldness, and others, perhaps, treat us with hostility, that the warmth of the friendly heart and the support of the friendly hand acquire increased value and demand additional gratitude. [ Bishop Mant ]
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of Nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the underworkman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master. [ Hume ]
Morals are of inestimable value, for every man is born crammed with sin microbes, and the only thing that can extirpate these sin microbes is morals. Now you take a sterilized Christian - I mean, you take the sterilized Christian, for there's only one. Dear sir, I wish you wouldn't look at me like that. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
Patron or Customer? These nouns are generally used indiscriminately. A patron is a virtual benefactor; one who countenances, aids, or supports. A customer is a purchaser, or buyer, who expects in return for his money full value received. Hence it is erroneous for a merchant to say, He is a patron of mine,
when he means simply a customer. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Never teach false modesty. How exquisitely absurd to teach a girl that beauty is of no value, dress of no use! Beauty is of value; her whole prospects and happiness in life may often depend upon a new gown or a becoming bonnet; if she has five grains of commonsense she will find this out. The great thing is to teach her their proper value. [ Sydney Smith ]
Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering. [ Jane Porter ]
An observant man, in all his intercourse with society and the world, carries a pencil constantly in his hand, and, unperceived, marks on every person and thing the figure expressive of its value, and therefore instantly on meeting that person or thing again, knows what kind and degree of attention to give it. This is to make something of experience. [ John Foster ]
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon. But even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him. It is the lapidary that gives value to the diamond, which the peasant has dug up without knowing its worth. [ Abbe Raynal ]
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. [ Carlyle ]
The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect. [ Emerson ]
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings, - a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate. [ Hannah More ]
As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may more properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame. [ Sterne ]
Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]
Gratitude is a link between justice and love. It discharges by means of affections those debts which the affections only can discharge, and which are so much the more sacred for this reason. Gratitude never springs up in the soil of selfishness, for self-interest in its eagerness to appropriate is unable to understand the impulses of generosity or to measure the true value of the gift. And, when we do understand it, we must love much to be willing to accept, we refuse when we love but little. Gratitude is the justice of the heart. [ Degerando ]