“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.”
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“Paris is well worth a mass.”
Paris vaut bien une messe. <br class="br"> 500 citations de culture générale, p. 28 https://books.google.com/books?id=pBQMTdLS_wUC&pg=PA28 <br class="br">Posthumous attributions
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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
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"
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“The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.”
William Beebe (1877–1962) American ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, and explorer
As quoted in On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz (1963)
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Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992).
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Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
“Some idiotic things are well worth doing.”
Richard Ford book Independence Day
Source: Independence Day
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“Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.”
Michel Chossudovsky (1946) Canadian economist
Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 10, India: The IMF'S "Indirect Rule", p. 155