Coin Quotes

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. (Euripides)
Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. View quote
Carl Sandburg
All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. View quote
John Adams
The German Reunification and unification of Europe are two sides of the same coin. View quote
Helmut Kohl
The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Advice n. the smallest current coin. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new. View quote
Alexander Smith
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin. (Graham Nash)
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war. View quote
François Rabelais
I feel no care of coin, Well-doing is my wealth; My mind to me an empire is, While grace affordeth health. View quote
Robert Southwell
It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities. View quote
David Ricardo
If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. View quote
Robert Jordan
The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him. View quote
Clement of Alexandria
Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you. View quote
Carl Sandburg
The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking. View quote
Alan Greenspan
Every side of a coin has another side. View quote
Myron Scholes
The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture. View quote
Stephen King
In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin - consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged. (Elizabeth Hardwick)
[J]amming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do. View quote
Kalle Lasn
Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham
I shall speak of ... how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another ... Of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next ... Of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis and progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin. View quote
Günter Grass