“342. A Penny sav'd is Two-pence got.”

— Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : A Penny sav'd is Twopence clear.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

Edward Ravenscroft (1654–1707) English dramatist

The Canterbury Guests: or, a bargain broken (1695), Act II, scene iv.

“A penny saved is two pence clear.”

Benjamin Franklin book Poor Richard's Almanack

"Hints For Those That Would Be Rich", Poor Richard's Almanack (1737)
Poor Richard's Almanack

“Penny saved is a penny got.”

Henry Fielding (1707–1754) English novelist and dramatist

Act III, sc. xii
The Miser (1733)

“A penny saved is a penny got.”

Benjamin Franklin book Poor Richard's Almanack

Preface, Poor Richard's Almanack (1758)
Poor Richard's Almanack

“502. A penny spar'd is twice got.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“If a workman can conveniently spare those three halfpence, he buys a pot of porter. If he cannot, he contents himself with a pint, and, as a penny saved is a penny got, he thus gains a farthing by his temperance.”

Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist

Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, Article IV, p. 951.

“I had a conversation here today with someone asked, ‘Well, what about Pence? If you are able to impeach, Pence will be worse. Well, I said, ‘Look, one at a time. You knock one down, and we’ll be ready for Pence. We’ll get him, too.”

Maxine Waters (1938) U.S. Representative from California

Mad Maxine Waters Brags That She Threatens Trump Supporters ‘All The Time’, Dailywire, 10 September 2018

“… a penny saved is better than a penny earned.”

Martin Luther book Table Talk

The Duty of a Husband and Wife (17 March 1539), No. 4408. LW 54:337 http://books.google.com/books?id=zsbXAAAAMAAJ&q=%22penny+saved+is+better+than+a+penny+earned%22&dq=%22penny+saved+is+better+than+a+penny+earned%22&lr=
Table Talk (1569)

“342. A Penny sav'd is Two-pence got.”

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