Coins Quotes - Page 13

• I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.

  Ernest Seyd

  Money, Winter, America

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• Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

  Fred Reed

  Law, America, Machines

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• Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Names, Two

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• Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Punishment, Two Sides

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• Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Death, Giving, Stamps

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.407, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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

  Sarah Palin

  Stupid, Silly, Conservative

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2010

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• The way is open, comrades, free as Space
  Alone is free. The only gold is love,
  A coin that we have minted from the light
  Of others who have cared for us on Earth
  And who have deposited in us the power
  That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Life, Stars, Light

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• Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand.

  Pablo Neruda

  Blue, Water, Silence

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• It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Games, Tables

  W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Robert M. Lindner

  Humility, Acceptance, Atheism

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• 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.

  John Plamenatz

  Knowledge, Hands, Ideas

  John Petrov Plamenatz (1963). “Man and Society: A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx... John Plamenatz....”

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• If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time-not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we have died. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. Today should always be our most wonderful day.

  Thomas Dreier

  Life, Happiness, Years

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• The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Christian, Spring

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

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Love, Debt, Pay

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1939). “The moving tide: new and selected lyrics by Jessie B. Rittenhouse...”

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• "It's better to give than to receive." Let me put this as elegantly as possible: "What a crock!" That statement is total hogwash, and in case you haven't noticed, it's usually propagated by people and groups who want you to give and them to receive. The whole idea is ludicrous. What's better, hot or cold, big or small, left or right, in or out? Giving and receiving are two sides of the same coin. Whoever decided that it is better to give than to receive was simply bad at math. For every giver their must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Math, Two Sides

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Feb 19, 2014

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• For many, love is a two-sided coin. It can strengthen or stifle, expand or enfeeble, perfect or pauperize. When love is returned, we soar. We are taken to heights unseen, where it delights, invigorates, and beautifies. When love is spurned, we feel crippled, disconsolate, and bereaved. Polish the coin and you will see only requited love on both sides. I was destined to love you and I will belong to you forever.

  Colleen Houck

  True Love, Love You, Taken

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• I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.

  Steve Pavlina

  Two Sides, Thought Provoking, Accepting Yourself

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• Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

  Louise Erdrich

  Shade, Sides

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.63, Odyssey Editions

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

  Emanuel Geibel

  Communication, Gold, Matter

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

  John Milton

  Beautiful, Bliss, Currents

  'Comus' (1637) l. 739

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• Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment.

  George Gissing

  Christmas, Heart, Yield

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.224, The Floating Press

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• Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

  Joseph Joubert

  Appreciate, Crucible, Criticism

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• Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.

  George R. R. Martin

  Greatness, Air, Land

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• The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Hypocrisy, Sorrow, Rhyme

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers”

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• Only very few people are born with awareness. Those are the people who die in awareness. If the death was conscious, then the birth will be conscious, because the death is the one side and the birth is the other side of the same coin.

  Rajneesh

  People, Sides, Birth

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