Quotes with two-penny

Quotes 721 till 740 of 1109.

  • Ben Shahn 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
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Anne Cassidy The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.
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  • Sophia Loren The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
    Sophia Loren
    Italian actress (1934 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Calvin Coolidge The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bob Seger The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Dorothy Parker The two most beautiful words in the English language are: ''Check Enclosed.''
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Brian Pickrell The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
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  • W. M. Thackeray The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Mark Twain The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bob Lemon The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
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  • Barry Eisler The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Samuel Johnson The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Epictetus The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Aristotle The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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