Top 100 Sayings About A Penny
#2. If I give you a penny, then you're a penny richer and I'm a penny poorer, but if I give you an idea, then you will have a new idea but I'll have it too.
Eric Schmidt
#3. Pricing is actually a pretty simple and straight forward thing. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product.
Ron Johnson
#4. Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.
John Selden
#5. The last girl I went out with blew me off. Now I call her with lame excuses to see her, "Hey, did I leave a penny over there?"
David Spade
#6. Opinions are 10 a penny. In the spin-driven, PR-controlled world of the 21st century, hard facts are rare indeed.
David Hewson
#7. A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
Samuel Grafton
#8. [T]he parent-child relationship was one way, you gave them all your love and they were under no obligation to pay a penny back. Of course, if they did love you then that was the icing on the cake with cherries on top. And chocolate shavings and those little silver balls that cracked your fillings.
Kate Atkinson
#9. I don't put a penny's value on this life if only our Lord will give me a tiny corner in Paradise.
Camillus De Lellis
#10. You're like a bad penny," I said, squinting at him. "Sometimes, you need a penny when you least expect it, Victoria.
J.B. Hartnett
#11. A penny for my thoughts oh no i'll sell em for a dollar their worth so much more after im a goner and then maybe you'll hear the words ive been singing funny when your dead how people start listening
The Band Perry
#12. Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
Barbara Kingsolver
#13. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.
Mary Landrieu
#14. Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
Frances Beinecke
#16. The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.
Ben Shahn
#17. All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.
Conrad Aiken
#18. A penny for the moat, where all the ashen song be wrote - a tune for man, so long eloped in hours of decision and derisive hope. Flutter, flutter heart, beyond your base and noble part. All eyes behold the passing.
Chris Galford
#19. I pay what I have to and not a penny more.
Jimmy Carr
#20. Thus was I recruited, and thus would I be ruined: for a penny.
Patrick McGrath
#21. I would not give a penny for your love to the truth if it is not accompanied with a hearty hatred of error.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#22. A penny for your thoughts, silent one. Perhaps, today you'll speak.
Pepper Winters
#23. The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.
Felix Dennis
#24. And her mother still struggled in these white kitchens in town, humming sweet hymns, tiny, mild eyed and bent, her father still labored on the oyster boats; after a lifetime of labor, should they drop dead tomorrow, there would not be a penny for their burial clothes.
James Baldwin
#26. Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.
Harry Golden
#27. A nickel is not worth a penny more.
Yogi Berra
#28. My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny ... You give my son back, and I'll pay my taxes.
Cindy Sheehan
#29. I don't know if a penny's dropped somewhere, but you've had 'Lark Rise to Candleford,' you've had 'Cranford,' you've had 'Last Tango in Halifax,' you've had 'Call the Midwife' ... I think the largest portion of the viewing public are over 55, and they like to see people they can identify with.
Judy Parfitt
#30. Most kids don't give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high I.Q. who can't play baseball or at least come in third in the local circle jerk is everybody's fifth wheel.
Stephen King
#31. the most expensive champagne in the world is cheap when compared with inkjet ink, which costs all of a penny a gallon to make wholesale.
Cory Doctorow
#32. When Dick was killed last week he looked like that, Flapping along the fire-step like a fish, After the blazing crump had knocked him flat ... . How many dead? As many as ever you wish. Don't count 'em; they're too many. Who'll buy my nice fresh corpses, two a penny?
Siegfried Sassoon
#33. There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.
Taylor Hanson
#34. Every good thing you find, no matter how small, is a penny for you to put in your pocket. Gather them close, and treasure them. Someday you'll have a future where you feel rich enough, emotionally, to spend them freely.
Seanan McGuire
#35. As a high-school drop-out, I knew I wanted to write, but I wasn't overly confident that I was going to be writing anything serious. I was happy enough with the idea that I could be a penny-a-word guy and survive.
Daniel Woodrell
#36. Geniuses sometimes end up very unhappy, without a penny.
Anthony Mann
#37. I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging. But I still said to myself, 'If the Everleighs doesn't sell, I'm finished with writing forever.' I was going to get an office job.
Karen Abbott
#38. I'll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career politicians. I'm not going to take a penny of special interest money.
Jeff Greene
#39. Are not two sparrows sold for only a penny? But not one of them falls to the ground without your Father knowing it.
Holy Bible Matthew 10 29
#40. It's time to ask why [the United States] is the only country in the world where we permit our children to be saddled with tens - sometimes hundreds - of thousands of dollars of debt before they begin to earn a penny.
F.H. Buckley
#42. I remember kids used to give me a penny for drawing them a horse. I loved horses, but I couldn't have one, so I would draw a horse for myself. I would make it food and a blanket for it to wear and a place to live.
Jan Brett
#43. I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.
Warren Buffett
#46. I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.
Imelda May
#47. If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
Steven Wright
#48. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love a thing despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is pure and rare and perfect.
Patrick Rothfuss
#49. It's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.
Gabrielle Roy
#50. We must have this rule, for there are those whose hearts are so hard that they will come and buy this rice that is given for the poor--for a penny will not feed any man like this--and they will carry the rice home to feed to their pigs for slop. And the rice is for men and not for pigs" (Buck, 105).
Pearl S. Buck
#51. Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.
Joseph Addison
#52. What are you running from?"
That put a damper on the fluttering lashes. "Columbia House Music Club," I said, recovering my snarkiness quickly. "Oh, sure, they say they'll sell you six CDs for a penny, but they'll hunt you down like the hounds of hell if you miss the payments.
Molly Harper
#53. Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up against a tide of sentiment and emotionalism over reason that threatens to engulf this world. When you think about it, a rationalist, a man of science and reason, is in a pretty lonely position.
Hugh Laurie
#54. Everything we make in life, eventually, is sold for a dollar or a penny or given away;
John Hodgman
#55. Where is the best place to hide a penny? It is in a jar of pennies.
Richard Paul Evans
#56. There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax.
Gordon Taylor
#57. She had passed the in-for-a-penny-in-for-a-pound road sign a long time ago. Hell, she was cruising the neighborhood streets of tonnage by now. Limping backward, she raised her middle finger to the Fae King.
Thea Harrison
#58. Charlie Brown: A penny! Rats! Why couldn't I have found a nickel? What good is a penny these days? Why do things like that always happen to me?! *walks off frustrated*
Lucy: Gee, he found a penny! Why don't things like that ever happen to me?
Charles M. Schulz
#59. I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing ... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.
Mary McLeod Bethune
#60. I pay the tax I am required to pay, not a penny more, not a penny less. If anybody in this country doesn't minimize their tax, they want their heads read because, as a Government, I can tell you they're not spending it that well that we should be donating extra.
Kerry Packer
#61. He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
Petronius
#62. Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.
Lois Capps
#63. A penny for your dirty thoughts A pin for your cheating lips. If a picture's worth a thousand words I hope your counterfeit canvas rips.
Isobel Irons
#64. And I think, if thoughts are worth a penny, how much less promises must be worth. Especially the ones you're likely to break.
Neal Shusterman
#65. Thanks for buying me dinner," she says when we reach her front door. "You didn't really give me a choice. You left your house without a penny and then you shoved the bill in my face.
Colleen Hoover
#66. My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.
GG Allin
#67. 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
#69. Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would be to start his own religion.
L. Ron Hubbard
#70. By the Angel, this place is barely better than a penny gaff," Gideon said. "Gabriel, don't look at anything unless I tell you it's all right.
Cassandra Clare
#71. Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?
George Orwell
#72. With one hand he put
A penny in the urn of poverty,
And with the other took a shilling out.
Robert Pollok
#73. I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.
Nick Clegg
#74. 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
#75. Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people.
Miriam Schapiro
#76. I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.
Jonathan Frakes
#77. Failures and mistakes are lessons, keep study school doesn't deserv a penny to give what you remember from school is just the worst stuff.
Deyth Banger
#78. Right now we're both yard sales of emotions. A penny for pain. A dime for bitterness. A quarter for grief. A dollar for silence. It binds us together, but I don't want him to pay the price for the parts of me that are used and broken.
Courtney C. Stevens
#79. Not a penny off the pay, not a second on the day.
A. J. Cook
#80. I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.
Richard Prince
#81. God, how long is a million years to you?" God said, "A million years is like a second." Then the man asked, "How much is a million dollars to you?" God said, "A million dollars is like a penny." The man smiled and said, "Could you spare a penny?" God smiled back and said, "Sure, just wait a second.
Mark Batterson
#82. Levelling my stare at him I drop a hint like a penny into a well, You mentioned you were tied up. Win, you should have reserved that privilege for me.
Poppet
#83. The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
Sitting Bull
#85. For a small smartphone charger, if it's not warm to the touch, it's using less than a penny a year. This is true of almost any powered device.1
Randall Munroe
#86. 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
#87. Kindness never cost me a penny," he said. "I see no need to hoard it." She
Meredith Duran
#89. We didn't have a television, so we sat around the table, and me and my sisters and my mom would do these jobs, like, a penny for a piece, you know, these paper jobs. You know, what really saved me as a human today is my sisters and my mom.
Riccardo Tisci
#90. At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'
Laurence Yep
#91. It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Pablo Picasso
#92. I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn £208,000 a year.
Peter Hargreaves
#94. Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for medical science, artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy? I
Anne Frank
#95. I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit.
Sarah Winman
#96. A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it.
George Eliot
#97. I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.
Justin Chon
#98. The same system that once gave us subprime mortgage collateralized debt obligations no investor could possibly truly understand now gave us stock market trades that occurred at fractions of a penny at unsafe speeds using order types that no investor could possibly truly understand.
Michael Lewis
#99. A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.
Benjamin Franklin
#100. Until that hungry black god eats me up. Now I spend the centuries circling into it like a penny in one of those coin spirals at an arcade;
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