Pennies Quotes - Page 4

• Money often costs too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Money, Greatest Wealth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Everyday, Let It Go, Raindrops

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 33, 1799.

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• Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Pockets, Want

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• If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Watches, Care, Pounds

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• The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence.
  [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

  George Herbert

  Men, Miserable

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• We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the middle of my head. The guitarists had pink hair. We weren't playing CBGB's either, we were playing Statesborough, Georgia, for cowboys on penny beer night. We used to keep crowbars onstage when fights would break out. Those were really wild times.

  Rex Smith

  Crazy, Real, Fighting

  "New again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2015.

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• The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.

  Harriet Martineau

  Ideas, Affection, Mass

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• Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Book, School, Boys

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• As far as I know, no one in the Kaufman or Hart clan was the basis for anyone in the play. I think we all wish we had a Grandpa, Penny, and Mr. De Pinna in our families.

  Chris Hart

  Thinking, Play, Grandpa

  Source: blog.roundabouttheatre.org

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• I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream... I was a failure-mediocre at advertising work and unable to get started as a writer. Hating the city, I got roaring, weeping drunk on my last penny and went home.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Hate, Home, Cities

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• Analogue dollars for digital pennies.

  Jeff Zucker

  Dollars, Digital, Analogue

  "CNN's Transformation Says A Lot About What Is Working Today In Television". www.businessinsider.com. February 7, 2014.

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• I have a jar at home, and I put pennies in it whenever I curse. The other day I spilled the jar. I owe it about $25.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• By the Angel, this place is barely better than a penny gaff,” Gideon said. “Gabriel, don’t look at anything unless I tell you it’s all right.

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Gideon, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1057, Simon and Schuster

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• The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.

  Wendell Phillips

  Country, New York, White

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.47

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Divine

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• July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.

  Jean Hersey

  Sweet, Beach, Garden

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• Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. 'Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.' Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot begin it too soon.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Running, Stars

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.52, William Butler Yeats

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• The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny.

  John C. Danforth

  Government, Banking, Federal Reserve

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• A runner is a miser, spending the pennies of his energy with great stinginess, constantly wanting to know how much he has spent and how much longer he will be expected to pay. He wants to be broke at precisely the moment he no longer needs his coin.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Energy, Needs, Coins

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• I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.

  Ken Dodd

  Taxation, Taxes, Revenue

  "Ken Dodd on his 60 years in showbiz: I'll keep doing live shows until I drop". Interview with Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. November 12, 2014.

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• You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you.

  Alfred Bester

  Heart, Thinking, Pigs

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• I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.

  Steve Martin

  Beautiful, Regret, Moving

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• Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Writing, Men, Religion

  Los Angeles Times, August 27, 1978.

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• A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.

  Bill Maher

  Kids, Dark, Thinking

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