Pliny the Elder Quotes

Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

I really never get recognized at all for anything.

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

I don't want to take things for granted.

I just want to be respected.

My deepest respect to the clubs who considered having me.

I always felt that I was never acknowledged for a lot of things - award shows, all of that.

People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you.

Valuable people are undervalued.

When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.