Coins Quotes

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

My debt to you, Belovèd, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.

The store of wisdom does not consist of hard coins which keep their shape as they pass from hand to hand; it consists of ideas and doctrines whose meanings change with the minds that entertain them.

My advice is flip a coin. If you regret the way it landed, then go with your gut.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the Lord thence our protector, whom or what shall we fear?

Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.

I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.

Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.

I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.

Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.

Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.

Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

Message and policy are very much a part, you know, two parts of the same coin.

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

A cliché is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand.

Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be, That this thing shall be added unto thee.

It's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins wherever they went. Even in the fields. Maybe to grow money . . .

Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.

I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.

'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'

That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day.

But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.

The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty whether the coming depression will be inflationary or deflationary.

The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.

Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

Male philosophers coin phrases -- 'virtue is its own reward' -- and female workers embody them.