Quotes of Farthing - somelinesforyou

“ There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ”

- James Anthony Froude

“ Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ”

- Gail Godwin

“ I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. ”

- Gordon Parks

“ 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

“ A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you said about people and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor? ”

- Unknown

“ If someone were to pay you $.10 for every kind word you ever spoke and collect $.05 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor? ”

- Unknown

“ A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business. ”

- Loretta Lynn

“ With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out. ”

- Robert Pollok

“ This is the fourth? ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ Blood is stronger than water; and, if either individual or national character be worth a farthing, it is not to be annihilated by any union - the multitudinous seas will not wash it out. ”

- Henry Glassford Bell

“ A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. ”

- O. Henry
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