“ We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
- 2K
“ A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 1.8K
“ With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out. ”
- Robert Pollok- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice. ”
- Queen Victoria- Copy
- 3K
“ I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police. ”
- Bertolt Brecht- Copy
- 4K
“ When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.". ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 3.8K
“ When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without — oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command! ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
- 2.5K
“ There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. ”
- Bernard Mandeville- Copy
- 1.6K
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