Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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George Bernard Shaw

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

Man | Worth | Think |

George Herbert

One good mother is worth a hundred school masters.

Good | Mother | Worth |

Galileo Galilei, known simply as Galileo

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth that humble reasoning of a single individual.

Authority | Individual | Science | Worth |

George MacDonald

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

Action | Emotions | Existence | Good | Worth |

Harry S. Truman

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Learning | Worth | Learn |

George MacDonald

In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

Giving | Man | Worth |

George Santayana

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Life | Life | Worth |

Henry Ward Beecher

There never was a person who did anything worth doing that did not receive more than he gave.

Receive | Worth |

Henry Ward Beecher

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Fighting | Worth |

Herbert Newton Casson

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Life | Life | Man | Money | Will | Worth | Happiness |

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving. Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

Better | Giving | Man | Nothing | Worth |

Henry Ward Beecher

Good-nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it, and certainly to everybody who dwells with them, in so far as mere happiness is concerned.

Good | Honor | Knowledge | Money | Nature | Worth | Happiness |

Hilaire Belloc, fully Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.

Laughter | Love | Nothing | Worth |

Henry Ward Beecher

There never was a person who do anything worth doing that did not receive more than he gave.

Receive | Worth |

Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau

If you wish to give a man a sense of poverty, give him a thousand dollars. The next hundred dollars he gets will not be worth more than ten that he used to get. Have pity on him. Withhold your gifts.

Man | Pity | Poverty | Sense | Will | Worth |

Henry Ward Beecher

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Good nature | Good | Honor | Knowledge | Money | Nature | Worth |

Izaak Walton

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Conscience | Nothing | Worth |