Anonymous
(on investing in the radio in 1920s)
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular.
Anonymous
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Anonymous
(Western Union memo, 1876)
This ‚telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no values to us.
Borges Jorge Luis 1899-1986
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
Cicero Marcus Tullius 106-43 BC
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Davies Robertson 1913-1995
If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures, let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.
Galbraith J.K.
Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.
Locke John 1632-1704
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
You would think him a very foolish fellow, that should not value a virtuous, or a wise man, infinitely before a great scholar.
McClung Nellie 1873-1951
Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.
Mencken H.L. 1880-1956
What men value in the world is not rights, but privileges.
Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592
Essays
The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them; he has lived for a long time who has little lived. Whether you have lived enough
depends not on the number of your years but on your will.
O'hara Neal
We forget that money gives its value - that someone exchanged work for it.
Pasternak Boris 1890-1960
Doctor Zhivago
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Pound Ezra 1885-1972
The ABC of Reading
Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
Reynolds Sir Joshua 1723-1792
Discourses on Art
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labour employed in it, or the mental pleasure produced by it.
Wharton Edith 1862-1937
The Descent of Man „The Other Two"
If he paid for each day's comfort with the small change of his illusions, he grew daily to value the comfort more and set less
store upon the coin.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
Lady Windermere's Fan
What is a cynic?
A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
