Variant: I stole every nickel, dime and dollar and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and bask on all the worlds most famous beaches.
Source: Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake, 2002, Ch.1 Pg.4(a), Ch.1 Pg. 11(b),Back cover(c), Ch.6 Pg.116(d)
Giles Coren (1969) British food critic, television presenter and novelist
Jewish Chronicle, 23 February 2007 http://website.thejc.com/home.aspx?AId50455&ATypeId1&searchtrue2&srchstrGiles%20Coren&srchtxt0&srchhead1&srchauthor0&srchsandp0&scsrch0
“I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Florida workers getting $5000 checks from BP -- but will it be enough? http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/nation/florida-workers-getting-5-000-checks-from-bp-733821.html, Palm Beach Post (June 8, 2010) <br class="br">2010, 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (April 2010)
“A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter
Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter II: The Market-Place
“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Reported as a misattribution in Bernard Glassman, Benjamin Disraeli: The Fabricated Jew in Myth and Memory (2003), p. 185.
Misattributed
“Hard was their lodging, homely was their food;
For all their luxury was doing good.”
Samuel Garth (1661–1719) British writer
Claremont, line 148, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "And learn the luxury of doing good", Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, line 22; George Crabbe, Tales of the Hall, book iii; "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces", William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act i. Sc. 2.
“My Fox guys, I love every single one of them.”
Condoleezza Rice (1954) American Republican politician; U.S. Secretary of State; political scientist
Comments overheard on an open microphone between morning television interviews http://web.archive.org/web/20070111182154/http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/11/rice.reut/index.html, January 11, 2007.
