
“A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 220.
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Third Part.
Third Part of Narrative
“A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 220.
“Your life is worth much more than gold.”
Jamming, from the album Exodus (1977)
Song lyrics
“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 282, said by Úrsula
“One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.”
Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 73
“A book that reveals the mind is worth more than one that only reveals its subject.”
Preface
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Variant: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Context: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 67
Context: For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 1, p. 7