Top 120 Pennies Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Liquid oxygen is one of the cheapest manufactured substances on Earth. In large quantities, it costs pennies per kilogram - cheaper than milk or beer.
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies. — © Bo Burnham
For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
In the space between our bodies there is a cup holder filled with pennies a distance which can often take years to cross.
My style was nostalgic and involved pearls and penny loafers, always with the pennies in them.
All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
Even as a little kid I knew that spinning a dreidel on the floor for literal pennies was a sad consolation for the joys of trimming a Christmas tree.
Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries.
Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies.
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.
That's part of being an entrepreneur - you watch your pennies.
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king. — © Gilbert K. Chesterton
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.
Start saving your pennies now. People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I’m worth it.
A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.
A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.
I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.
And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.
For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.
I always hated the thought of not having two pennies to rub together.
If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.
If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves.
In love, 100 pennies do not equal a dollar.
Analogue dollars for digital pennies.
If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
Mother Teresa was a hero of mine for a long time. I just like the way she took on the world from a very humble place. She has a great quote. When she was leaving her monestary to start Sisters of Charity, she had two pennies. She was asked by a head priest what she could possibly do with two pennies. She said, 'Nothing. But with two pennies and God, I can do anything'.
If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
I collect lucky pennies that I find on the ground. I keep them in a Ziploc bag.
I've always been quite conscious of it, though I don't know why. I would never overspend, and I have to know exactly what I've got so that I avoid going into overdraft. I watch my pennies, and I'm quite thrifty.
?ount dollars, not pennies. Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget.
I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.
I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.
It's not about the pennies as such, but what I've been able to create for the family. I have done that better than I could have ever dreamed.
I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to be working!
I think, when I was little, I was a little obsessed with anything that provided luck: Buddhas, 4-leaf clovers, heads-up pennies, even - gasp - a rabbit foot - which actually kind of disgusts me now.
A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.
Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money. — © Lilly Ledbetter
Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.
Of course kids should pay taxes.Tell littlie johnny if he wants to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the mud,he's got to pay3 more pennies when he buys a candy bar.
Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
I think what Ripple is doing is not just, 'Hey, how do we enable banks' - it's a broader effort in how can you enable an Internet of Things and connected devices that are economic actors to pass a couple pennies.
The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.
My loneliness tasted like pennies.
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.
I remember my mother and I sitting down counting off our pennies to pay our bills. We really had nothing. — © Diana DeGarmo
I remember my mother and I sitting down counting off our pennies to pay our bills. We really had nothing.
Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather together for recreation, education, and inspiration - a blessed trinity worthy of public support.
Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his old pants. There'll be in his pockets Things he used to put there, Keys and pennies Covered with tobacco; Dan shall have the pennies To save in his bank; Anne shall have the keys To make a pretty noise with. Life must go on, Though good men die; Anne, eat your breakfast; Dan, take your medicine; Life must go on; I forget just why.
Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.
I have a jar at home, and I put pennies in it whenever I curse. The other day I spilled the jar. I owe it about $25.
When I'm really depressed because I have no money I buy a bottle of champagne with my last pennies - it's the best way to cheer yourself up.
They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains
If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.
One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It's like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It's easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
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