A peny for your thought.
John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
A penny for your thoughts.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): Introduction to Polite Conversation.
With one hand he put
A penny in the urn of poverty,
And with the other took a shilling out.
Robert Pollok (1799-1827): The Course of Time. Book viii. Line 632.
By my penny of observation.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Penny saved is a penny got.
Henry Fielding (1707-1754): The Miser. Act iii. Sc. 12.
Penny saved is a penny got.
Henry Fielding (1707-1754): The Miser. Act iii. Sc. 12.
There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves
sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten
hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Robert Burton (1576-1640): Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.
