"Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent…" — Mark Twain
"Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do."
More Cent Quotes
- There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. — Franklin P. Adams
- No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you. — George Matthew Adams
- When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there;… — Juliette Binoche
- At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas. — Julie Bishop
- Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords. — Bjork
- The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a… — Anthony Bourdain
- The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. — Bill Bryson
- Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the… — Luther Burbank
- The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But… — Smedley Butler
- The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers… — Herman Cain
- I work very hard and I'm worth every cent. — Naomi Campbell
- In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are… — George Canning