My rule of conduct has been that whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well," said Nicolas Poussin, the great French painter.
The fact is, as Sydney Smith has well said, that in order to do anything in this world that is worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank, and thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
In truth, whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well; and nothing can be done well without attention: I therefore carry the necessity of attention down to the lowest things, even to dancing and dress.
Aim at least at the perfection of everything that is worth doing at all; and you will come nearer it than you would imagine; but those always crawl infinitely short of it whose aim is only mediocrity.
Let me repeat that which[9] you ought to know, that that which is worth doing is worth doing well.
Let me repeat, what you ought to know, that what is worth doing is worth doing well.
Celia: Anything that isworth doing is worth doing well.
And this must be worth doing, if it be worth while to touch on Blake's work at all.
It is feasible, and would be worth doing; but not here.
It is assumed, to begin with, that the artist has something to say or do worth doing or saying in an artistic form.
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well; and if it is not beneath your dignity to dance, it is not unworthy of your mind to give itself, for the time, wholly up to it.
The old proverb is full of truth and meaning--"Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
Parents and teachers should hence, at an early period, impress indelibly upon the minds of their children and pupils the ever true and practical sentiment, that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
The majority of schools might be very much improved by conducting them upon the principle that "what isworth doing at all is worth doing well.
If the maxim, that 'whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well,' hold good, Beau Brummell must be regarded in the light of a great man.
That dressing is worth doing at all, everybody but a Fiji Islander seems to admit, for everybody does it.
This maxim, while losing in sententiousness would gain in reason if it ran thus: "What is worth doing at all is worth doing as well as the situation demands.
And therefore all is worth taking trouble over, worth doing as diligently and honestly as possible, in sure trust that it will bring its reward with it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "worth doing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
