Best Pennies Proverbs
257 Pennies quotes by 229 unique authors
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here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a…
— Thomas de Quincey
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I told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a…
— Colum McCann
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So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
— Jack Kerouac
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Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your way back. Then I can make a…
— Eoin Colfer
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He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.
— Howard Pyle
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In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house…
— Michael Lewis
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Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the…
— Anne Carson
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My loneliness tasted like pennies.
— Janet Fitch
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Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that…
— Upton Sinclair
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What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows…
— Beryl Markham
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So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any…
— Lev Grossman
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She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams.…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
— Harper Lee
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Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the…
— Jerry Spinelli
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One sister for sale, One sister for sale, One crying and spying young sister for sale I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding…
— Shel Silverstein
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Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid…
— C.S. Lewis
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Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
— Paulo Coelho
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You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters,…
— Ray Bradbury
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Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have…
— Anne Frank
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The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by…
— Annie Dillard
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You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Always a…
— Frank McCourt
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You barbarians!' he yelled. 'I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled...until...until...until...until you've…
— Douglas Adams
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Penny said two words, the second of which was "you." Caine laughed. "I think you meant '---- you, Your Highness.
— Michael Grant
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