Worry
- I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.
-- Joseph Jefferson
- The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
-- James Truslow Adams
- Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.
-- Anonymous
- Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
-- William Ralph Inge
- It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.
-- Alice Caldwell Rice
- As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- Robert Frost
- Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
-- George Washington Lyon
- There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
- Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
-- Swedish Proverb
- Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.
-- Wu-Men
- In trouble to be troubled
Is to have your trouble doubled.
-- Daniel Defoe, from Robinson Crusoe
Worth
- Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
-- Henry Fielding
- He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
-- William James
- All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
-- Henry David Thoreau
- For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.
-- John Burroughs
Master Nansen was washing clothes. A monk asked: "Is the Master still doing such things?" Master Nansen, holding up his clothes, asked: "What is to be done with them?"
- --Zen Mondo
- I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-- John D. Rockefeller
- It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
-- Will Rogers
- The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
- I hold, as an article of faith, that the worth of an organisation can be accurately measured as the reciprocal of how many "Hollywood beautiful people" it attracts. It has never failed me yet.
-- Barry Williams (the Skeptic of Oz)
- If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
-- Lin-Chi
Writer
- The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
-- Samuel Johnson
- Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.
-- James T. Farrell
- Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
-- Ernest Hemingway
- Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
-- Sinclair Lewis
- You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
-- Anatole France
- Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
-- Elbert Hubbard
Wrong
- We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.
-- Mark Twain
- Two wrongs do not make a right.
-- English Proverb
- There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.
-- Kin Hubbard
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
-- Samuel Johnson
- The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
-- Publilius Syrus
- Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
-- Walter S. Landor
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