Pennies Quotes - Page 14

• So many people joke that life with me - a professed lifelong penny pincher - must be tough. But [my husband] is a great money manager. And he helps me let go of my fear of spending while still being frugal.

  Michelle Singletary

  Letting Go, Husband, People

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.

  William Cowper

  Money, Lying, Names

  'Table Talk' (1782) l. 420 (Perjury)

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• No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the empty canvas were signed by a great artist. I would be surprised if an empty canvas by Picasso or Matisse signed and inscribed with the words, 'I wanted to paint such and such on this canvas, but did not do so,' would not fetch thousands... After all, with an empty canvas, the possibilities are limitless, and so perhaps is the cash.

  Semir Zeki

  Artist, Fetch, Cash

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• The smith and his penny both are black.

  George Herbert

  Black

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.298

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• Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol's Factory.

  Lady Gaga

  Art, Mean, Boring

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• I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.

  Little Richard

  People, Heaven, Rhythm And Blues

  "Yesterdays". Book by Charles Hamm, 1979.

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• Whatever you can handle, it's up to you. Pick something where you are going to do it to failure--in other words, where you can hardly do it. That's the key. So many people will just take five pound weights and do something 10 times. What are they getting out of it? Nothing! Say you are going to build up your bank account. If you put in a penny a day, it's going take a long while. It's the same with exercise--the more you put into it the more you take out.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Keys, Long

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• Now, the mistakes that I made with my other two sons, Penny and Kobe, I won't make with D-Wade. We can't let them break us up and we can't break each other up.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Mistake, Son

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• Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Air, Mind, Way

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• Not a penny off the pay, not a second on the day.

  A. J. Cook

  Pay

  Referring to the miners' slogan in speech at York, 3 April 1926: 'The Times' 5 April 1926

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• Somebody asked me about this the other day. A young Shaq and a young Penny, the young Shaq's going to take over. A medium Shaq and a young Kobe, the medium Shaq is going to take over. Now you've got an older Shaq and a young Dwyane; you step aside, you let him do his thing and you just do what's asked of you.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Steps, Shaq

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• When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

  William Shenstone

  Honesty, Book, Men

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.15

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• Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wells

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.24, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Men, Age, Saint

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• To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Cutting, Knives, Two

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• Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Everyday, Littles, Events

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 33, 1799.

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• Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Jingles, Half

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.90, Whitaker House

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• I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

  Guy Fieri

  Dad, Kids, Trying

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• I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Lying, Grief

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2011). “We Shall See God: Charles Spurgeon's Classic Devotional Thoughts on Heaven”, p.298, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

  Joe Biden

  Income, Gains, Investment

  Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, debated in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2008.

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• I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

  Camille Claudel

  Scared, Imagine, Horrible

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• When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

  Larry David

  New York, Thinking, Names

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Growing Up, Boys, Years

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• The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter

  Mary Landrieu

  The End Of The Day, President, Cost

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• My only boss was the clock on the wall and my only friend, never really was a friend at all. I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less. Lost my ideas in that long tunnel of time. And I've turned inside out and around about and back and then found myself right back where I started again

  Jim Croce

  Wall, Tunnels, Ideas

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