penny quotes

   Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum omnes unius aestimemus assis. Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love! Let us not give one penny if old men protest and disapprove.

-Catiline full name Lucius Sergius Catilina
Roman conspirator, from an obscure senatorial family. In 63 BC, he  plotted to murder  Cicero  and other  hostile  senators,  and to seize power, but was arrested and executed.

Not a penny off the pay; not a second on the day.

- ArthurJames Cook
  Miners'strike slogan, coined in a speech, 3  Apr. It is often rendered 'not a minute on the day'.

The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny. Theyare going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezeduntil the pips squeak. My only doubt is not whether we can squeeze hard enough, but whether there is enough juice.

- Sir Eric Campbell Geddes
  Speech at Cambridge Guildhall,10 Dec.

Iown Ilike definiteforminwhat myeyesaretorest upon; and if landscapes were sold, likethe sheets of characters of my boyhood, one penny plain and twopence coloured, I should go the length of twopence every day of my life.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  Travels with a Donkey,'FatherApollinaris'.