Best Penny Quotations
246 Penny quotes by 218 unique authors
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Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for…
— Samuel Johnson
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I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just…
— Jonathan Frakes
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As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.
— William Proxmire
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When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it…
— Annie Dillard
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Found a dead body when I was 12, saved the Enterprise a few times, Ran the Axis of Anarchy, broke up Penny and Leonard. Currently…
— Wil Wheaton
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As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a…
— Stacy Keach
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Oh, God. God, isn't that perfect? He's Dad. He's Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you don't even know…
— Nora Roberts
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If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't work. The problem…
— Mark Steyn
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By the way, how much does NASA cost? It's half a penny on a dollar. Did you know that? ... The most powerful agency on…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace
— Chanakya
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The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for…
— Felix Dennis
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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…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a…
— Andy Samberg
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Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.
— Mark Wahlberg
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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
— Plutarch
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Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather…
— Thomas M. Disch
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We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.
— Rand Paul
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I worked at McDonald's. I cooked. It was one of the toughest jobs I've ever had. These people earn every single penny they get. In…
— Keith Ellison
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It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars,…
— Richard Hammond
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All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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A penny saved is a penny to squander.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.
— Dave Rowntree
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Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.
— Seneca the Younger
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Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?
— George Orwell
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