Also known as Worth, New York, Worth, NY

Worth is a town in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 231 at the 2010 census. The town is named after William Worth, a commander of troops during the Battle of Sackett's Harbor.

Country: United States

Overview

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Also known as Worth, New York, Worth, NY

Notable quotes

“Men are like steel — when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”
— Anonymous proverb; though often attributed to Chuck Norris, this seems to have appeared at least as early as 1961, in an edition of The Physical Educator.
“In all our noble Anglo-Saxon language, there is scarcely a nobler word than worth; yet this term has now almost exclusively a pecuniary meaning. So that if you ask what a man is worth, nobody ever thinks of telling you what he is, but what he has. The answer will never refer to his merits, his virtues, but always to his possessions. He is worth — so much money.”
— Richard Fuller, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 623.
“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.”
— Thomas Merton, letter to Dorothy Day, quoted in Catholic Voices in a World on Fire (2005) by Stephen Hand, p. 180.
“You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.”
— Lord Fisher. In the London Times (June 16, 1919). Quoted by him as a "classic" and as "the apposite words spoken by a German naval officer to his English confrère." Lord Fisher comments, "On the whole I think I prefer to be the fool—even as a matter of business".
“Il est plus facile de paraître digne des emplois qu'on n'a pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.”
— It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
“It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.”
— Jonathan Swift, Tale of a Tub, dedication.

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