Short quotations about, worth - Page 2

Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS

To be beneficent when we can is a d…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But […]

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To do anything in this world worth …

13 Oct , 2011  

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. Great short quote and quotation by: Sydney Smith , English essayist (1771 – 1845)

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Anna Louise Strong

To fall in love is easy, even to re…

13 Oct , 2011  

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. Great short quote and quotation by: Anna Louise Strong ,

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Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969

To gain that which is worth having,…

13 Oct , 2011  

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Great short quote and quotation by: Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969 ,

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Bernadette Devlin

To gain that which is worth having,…

13 Oct , 2011  

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Great short quote and quotation by: Bernadette Devlin ,

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Joey Bishop

Today you can go to a gas station a…

13 Oct , 2011  

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. Great short quote and quotation by: Joey Bishop , US actor & comedian (1918 – )

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Two things, well considered, would …

5 Aug , 2011  

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ in worth contending about. Great short quote and quotation by: C. C. Colton ,

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War is an ugly thing, but not the u…

15 Feb , 2011  

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a […]

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John Stuart Mill

War is an ugly thing, but not the u…

15 Feb , 2011  

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a […]

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Hansell B. Duckett

What this country needs is more fre…

15 Feb , 2011  

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. Great short quote and quotation by: Hansell B. Duckett ,

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Phillip Stanhope

Whatever is worth doing at all, is …

15 Feb , 2011  

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. Great short quote and quotation by: Phillip Stanhope ,

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Phillip Earl Stanhope

Whatever is worth doing at all is w…

15 Feb , 2011  

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. Great short quote and quotation by: Phillip Earl Stanhope ,

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