Penny For Your Thoughts Quotes
- The page contains money quotes related to pennies
- There are over 30 quotes from various historical figures, authors, and celebrities
- Many of the quotes discuss saving money and getting value from small amounts
- A few discuss earning, spending, and investing money
- The quotes cover topics like taxes, wealth, poverty, and materialism
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“He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed” — Petronius
“A penny saved is worth two pennies earned . . . after taxes” — Randy Thurman
“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
“A penny saved is a penny earned” — Benjamin Franklin
“[Trump] conceives of the world as a battlefield in which every country is intent on dominating every other; where nations compete like real estate developers to ruin rivals and squeeze every penny of profit out of deals” — Madeleine K. Albright
“I delivered about 500,000 papers, and I made about a penny each. So it was about $5,000 I made” — Warren Buffett
“I dreamed I had a good job and I got well paid. I blew it all at the penny arcade” — Eric Clapton
“You can bare your bosom to the storm of British artillery to throw off a three-penny tax on tea; and yet wring the last hard earned farthing from the grasp of the black laborers of your country” — Frederick Douglass
“Mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. He had seemed to love it little in the years when every penny had its purpose for him; for he loved the purpose then. But now, when all purpose was gone, that habit of looking towards the money and grasping it with a sense of fulfilled effort made a loam that was deep enough for the seeds of desire” — George Eliot
“It’s just like a magic penny, Hold it tight and you won’t have any. Lend it, spend it, and you’ll have so many They’ll roll all over the floor” — Malvina Reynolds
“A story to warm the hearts of all who take orgiastic delight in picturing the rich as inhospitable, ungracious penny-pinchers” — J. Paul Getty
“Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more” — Francis Bacon
“I don’t owe one man one cent. Anywhere” — Roy Acuff
“Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol’s Factory” — Lady Gaga
“It didn’t cost the nation anything to integrate hotels and motels. It didn’t cost the nation a penny to guarantee the right to vote. Now we are in a period where it will cost the nation billions of dollars to get rid of poverty, to get rid of slums, to make quality integrated education a reality” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies” — Al Capone
“I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies” — Chuck Grassley
“Bob has a saying, ‘Putting money in the bank’ … When we train every day, sometimes there are workouts you don’t like, don’t want to do. Bob says you’re putting money in the bank. I guess I put a lot of money in the bank over the last four years, and we withdrew pretty much every penny in the bank. After Bob and I both grab a little break, it’ll be time to start depositing” — Michael Phelps
“May it please your honor, I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper — The Revolution — four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government; and I shall work on with might and main to pay every dollar of that honest debt, but not a penny shall go to this unjust claim” — Susan B. Anthony
“Ever notice how it’s a penny for your thoughts, yet you put in your two cents? Someone is making a penny on the deal!” — Steven Wright
“I told the Inland Revenue I didn’t owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside” — Ken Dodd
“Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny” — Plutarch
“Congress must pursue a bold and robust course of action. It makes no sense to pinch pennies when so many Americans are struggling” — Chuck Schumer
“I’m like pennies in your pocket. You know they’re there, but you don’t think about them” — Bill Withers
“Pennies do not come from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth” — Margaret Thatcher
“When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other” — Andy Dingley
“Only boys who save their pennies Make my rainy day You know that we are living in a material world And I am a material girl” — Madonna