Top 38 Farthing Quotes
#1. A woman is a fool that lives from penny to farthing and n'er looks to the possibility of loss.
Nancy E. Turner
#2. Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
Oliver Cromwell
#3. 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
Miguel De Cervantes
#4. I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
Abraham Whipple
#5. My dearest Miss Farthing, will you do me the unutterable honor of wearing this cheap bit of metal that will most likely turn your finger green, pretending to love and honor me as your husband for the purposes of subterfuge and stratagem?
Lisa Mantchev
#6. He was standing on the pavement outside Nick Farthing's house, his face damp from the thick night mist.
Neil Gaiman
#7. How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun!
Edward Young
#8. The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
Thomas Carlyle
#9. I write not for your farthing, but to try / How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
Isaac Watts
#11. The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence.
[The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
George Herbert
#12. Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.
Charles Dickens
#13. Private property ... is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.
Benjamin Franklin
#14. There is more in one of their mercies to comfort them, than in all their troubles to deject them. All your losses are but as the loss of a farthing to a prince,
John Flavel
#15. Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
William Bligh
#16. Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
George D. Prentice
#18. I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.
Joseph Addison
#19. Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.
George Herbert
#20. Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
Cato The Elder
#21. I'll tell you what I long for, the days of disarray, when I didn't give a damn or a fuck or a farthing.
Don DeLillo
#22. The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.
Richard Cobden
#23. The Farthing women tend to leave the party without notice.
Lisa Mantchev
#24. Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.
John Adams
#25. Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Horace Walpole
#26. The God who has claimed us for himself if Father, Son and Holy Spirit; not just Father, not just Son, not just Spirit. God is God FOR US - Father. God is God WITH US - Son. God is God IN US - Spirit.
Darrell W. Johnson
#27. But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.
Gordon Parks
#28. Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect knowledge of one thing, and truly tasted what it is to know, he shall perceive that of infinite other conclusions he understands not so much as one.
Galileo Galilei
#29. Someone somewhere may be one of the most important person to you currently but you will always be nothing more than a backup plan to them.
Lik Hock Yap
#30. She'd not allow Daniel Barrett to escape her so easily. She'd placed a bounty on his heart, and she intended to collect.
Karen Witemeyer
#31. Every once in a while we remember that life is short, and to appreciate the time with your friends and family, and to be open to have beautiful exciting moments in your days and stop worrying about what's pulling you down.
Garrett Hedlund
#32. Words were numbers were codes were formulae. Words held secret maps, the measuring of paces, the patterns of mortal minds, of histories, of cities, of continents and warrens.
Steven Erikson
#33. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping.
Suzanne Collins
#34. I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.
Adriana Lima
#35. The single biggest resource India has is people and skill.
Uday Kotak
#36. If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.
Michael Winslow
#37. Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.
Susan Sontag
#38. Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.
Robert Patterson
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