Books Quote by William H. Gass

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Vegetable seed catalogs have replaced the penny candy store. The fireballs, the root-beer barrels, and the licorice whips aren't sold at the corner anymore.…

— Roger B. Swain

“Nothing. That was a nostalgia kiss,” he said. “It’s sepia colored. People in that kiss are . . . wearing stovepipe hats . . . and children are rolling hoops…

— Meg Wolitzer

I pay whatever tax I am required to pay under the law, not a penny more, not a penny less... if anybody in this…

— Kerry Packer

I have proposed I would not add a penny to the debt and [Donald Trump] plans would add $5 trillion to the debt.

— Hillary Clinton

Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does…

— Roger Ailes

To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't…

— Dan Pallotta

I always hated the thought of not having two pennies to rub together.

— Sara Cox

I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Freinds are like pennies. . . two face +worthless!

— Anonymous

I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.

— John Cassavetes