Farthing Quotes
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Farthing Quotes & Sayings
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Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
— Cato The Elder
He was standing on the pavement outside Nick Farthing's house, his face damp from the thick night mist.
— Neil Gaiman
Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
— William Bligh
I'll tell you what I long for, the days of disarray, when I didn't give a damn or a fuck or a farthing.
— Don DeLillo
That penny farthing hell you call your mind
— Samuel Beckett
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun! — Edward Young
I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
— Abraham Whipple
A woman is a fool that lives from penny to farthing and n'er looks to the possibility of loss.
— Nancy E. Turner
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
— Horace Walpole
I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.
— Joseph Addison
Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
— George D. Prentice
Private property ... is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.
— Benjamin Franklin
Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.
— George Herbert
The Farthing women tend to leave the party without notice.
— Lisa Mantchev
Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.
— Charles Dickens