For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. Gloria Steinem
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime. John Ashcroft
I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study. Xun Zi
Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]. Horace
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. Sophocles