Guinea Quotes

79 quotes by 68 authors

In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed… — David Bailey
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more… — William Blake
The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the… — Jimmy Carter
It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole… — Gardner Murphy
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a… — Bernard de Mandeville
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free. — A. E. Housman
If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall… — Charles Caleb Colton
If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man. — Peter Singer
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits… — Herman Melville
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness… — Samuel Johnson
An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles. — Hans F. Sennholz
I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break his head. When… — Frank Sinatra
I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South. — Nat King Cole
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a… — John Ruskin
I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig. — Cornelia Funke
The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it… — Queen Victoria
In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than… — Joshua Kendall
I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all.… — Jon Huntsman, Jr.
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with… — Charles Caleb Colton

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