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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
Colette
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
Alice Munro
The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel.
Oliver Goldsmith
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
George Santayana
No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.
Bohumil Hrabal
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
Tallulah Bankhead
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
Joan Didion
I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.
Jack White
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
Patrick Henry
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
Kenneth Grahame
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
Henry Rollins
....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.
J. Paul Getty
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.
Yitzhak Rabin
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
Rita Rudner
There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.
Gene Wolfe
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
John Tukey
Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.
Richard Feynman
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
Gustave Flaubert
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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