Fivepence Quotes

#1. We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?

Samuel Beckett

#2. By the exercise of his will he has set his course, and on that course he will stay as if guided by an automatic pilot. If blown off course for a moment by some adverse wind he will surely return again as by a secret bent of the soul.

A.W. Tozer

#3. And these invitations, these are already sent out?" Rich asked from the front row. "Indeed. Ever since the year a student attempted to hijack the mail truck, we've made it policy to only remind the students of Parents' Weekend after all the invitations are delivered,

Drew Hayes

#4. History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone.

Sara Sheridan

#5. It is worth pointing out that assuredly not more than one person out of a hundred who stayed in the market after after 1925 emerged from it with a net profit and that the speculative losses taken were appalling.

Benjamin Graham

#6. They were full of light, of fire and starlight and sunshine. They over-flowed with it as they snapped the final tether on the king's power and cleaved his darkness away, burning it up until it was nothing.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

Voltaire

#8. I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn't change a thing about my life.

Richard Branson

#9. Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it

Nicholas Von Hoffman

#10. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

Cormac McCarthy

#11. If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Alan Perlis

#12. A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

Andrei Platonov

#13. I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.

Mary Oliver