Top 25 Worthy Quotes of 191 - Page 5

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

Money, Untrustworthy, Incompetence

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Literature, Worthy

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

Christopher Hitchens

Henry Kissinger, Trustworthy, Accepting

Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1565, Atlantic Books Ltd

Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

Aristotle

Untrustworthy, May, Torture

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

Alice Hoffman

Worthy, Proving Yourself, Prove

Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.417, Simon and Schuster

You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of.

Abbi Glines

Worthy, Deserve

Abbi Glines (2014). “Never Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

I don't feel I'm even worthy of a normal amount of value.

Todd Barry

Normal, Worthy, Feels

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

Theodore Roosevelt

Wish, Fortune, Worthy

Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.54, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

Sebastian Horsley

Book, Littles, Worthy

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

Preston Manning

Negative, Newsworthy

Source: www.macleans.ca

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

Pierre Corneille

Infamy, Unworthy

"Le Cid". Book by Pierre Corneille, act I, scene V, 1636.

To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.

Pierre Charron

Worthy, Obligation

Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator.

Phillip Lopate

Narrators, Trustworthy, Confession

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

Ovid

Power, Wish, Praiseworthy

It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.

Maureen Corrigan

Longing, Great American, Worthy

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

Matthew Henry

News, Too Good To Be True, Worthy

Matthew Henry, Samuel Palmer (1838). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament ...”, p.636

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Modesty, Obedience, Worthy

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Legibus, III. 2, p. 564, 1922.

Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.

Madeleine Stowe

Wonderful, Trustworthy, Pranksters

"We're Talking To You, Miss!". Mohican Press interview, www.mohicanpress.com. March 25, 2005.

There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.

Lancelot Andrewes

Christ, Virtue, Worthy

Lancelot Andrewes (1874). “Ninety-six Sermons: Sermons preached in Lent, on Good-Friday, and on Easter-day”, p.120