A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush
For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
There's no political point worth my son's life.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Taking a life, is not worth getting life in prison.
A well-aimed spear is worth three.
Don't spend $100 worth of time on a $5 decision.
Things worth telling - take time
There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forge...
Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in any language.
You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you'll read anything a good writer wants you to read.
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.
We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few.
... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.
Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle age is like looking at the moon in one's courtyard; and reading books in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace.
