Guinea Quotes
79 quotes by 68 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
— A. E. Housman
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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
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If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.
— Peter Singer
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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
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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
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An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles.
— Hans F. Sennholz
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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
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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
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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
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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
— Cornelia Funke
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The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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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
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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
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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.
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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
Who Wrote These Guinea Quotes
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