Paris vaut bien une messe.
Posthumous attributions
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield British statesman and man of letters 1694 - 1773
Disputed, The French attribute this to the painter Nicolas Poussin (born 15 June 1594) "Ce qui vaut la peine d'être fait vaut la peine d'être bien fait"
— Terence McKenna American ethnobotanist 1946 - 2000
Eros and the Eschaton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_WW9z0_Eu0& lecture (1994)
— Norman Lamont British politician 1942
Context: Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.
Hansard, HC 6Ser vol 191 col 413 (16 May 1991) http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199091/cmhansrd/1991-05-16/Orals-1.html.
— William Beebe American ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, and explorer 1877 - 1962
As quoted in On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz (1963)
— C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961
— Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Downing Street (April 1, 1850), Context: a man of Intellect, of real and not sham Intellect, is by the nature of him likewise inevitably a man of nobleness, a man of courage, rectitude, pious strength; who, even because he is and has been loyal to the Laws of this Universe, is initiated into discernment of the same; to this hour a Missioned of Heaven; whom if men follow, it will be well with them; whom if men do not follow, it will not be well. Human Intellect, if you consider it well, is the exact summary of Human Worth; and the essence of all worth-ships and worships is reverence for that same.
— Angela Carter English novelist 1940 - 1992
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992).
— Zig Ziglar American motivational speaker 1926 - 2012
— Michel Chossudovsky Canadian economist 1946
The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 10, India: The IMF'S "Indirect Rule", p. 155
— Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
— Robert Fulghum American writer 1937
— José de San Martín Argentine general and independence leader 1778 - 1850
100 Masones Su Palabra (2010), Una derrota peleada vale más que una victoria casual.
— Giannina Braschi, book United States of Banana
United States of Banana (2011)
— Larry LeSueur American journalist 1909 - 2003
Goldstein, Richard. " Larry LeSueur, Pioneering War Correspondent, Dies at 93 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/arts/larry-lesueur-pioneering-war-correspondent-dies-at-93.html", (obituary), The New York Times, February 7, 2003, accessed June 21, 2011, from a radio broadcast following the 1944 Liberation of Paris.
