Farthing's Quotes

#1. He was standing on the pavement outside Nick Farthing's house, his face damp from the thick night mist.

Neil Gaiman

#2. How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

Edward Young

#3. I can't drown my demons. They know how to swim.

Oliver Sykes

#4. Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

William Bligh

#5. Private property ... is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.

Charles Dickens

#7. 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

#8. That penny farthing hell you call your mind

Samuel Beckett

#9. I write not for your farthing, but to try / How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

Isaac Watts

#10. 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

#11. She's not Italian in any way you'd notice. No garlic smell or big armpit hair. She came here to attend medical school. Frigging medical school. In Iowa. The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here. The

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. Waqt masiha haeh, har gham ko samaa lega, Lekin waqt haeh, waqt lega. (Time is a messiah, every sorrow it shall contain. But time it is and time it shall take.)

Nilesh Rathod

#13. 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

#14. I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.

Abraham Whipple

#15. In that prehistoric time, before the Internet, before information floated in the ozone, I was a soccer novice who had never heard of Socrates until somebody pointed him out - swarthy, shaggy, tall, slender, mysterious.

George Vecsey

#16. '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

#17. Devour thy own truths.

Truth Devour

#18. The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here.

Doug Cooper

#19. 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

#20. Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.

George Herbert

#21. It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Ho Chi Minh

#22. You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.

John Green

#23. 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

#24. A woman is a fool that lives from penny to farthing and n'er looks to the possibility of loss.

Nancy E. Turner

#25. If you live on a farm, there is definite peer pressure to grow something.

Janaki Lenin

#26. Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#27. We don't want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone - Trust God to take care of them.

Stormie O'martian

#28. I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.

Joseph Addison

#29. 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

#30. Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.

Cato The Elder

#31. Allison?' 'Mmmm?' 'You do realize I'm in love with you? Right?

Delphine Dryden

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Bullshit reigns.

Tom Wolfe

#35. The Farthing women tend to leave the party without notice.

Lisa Mantchev

#36. 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

#37. Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Horace Walpole