Counterfeit Money Quotes

• I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

  Elizabeth I

  Names, Deception, Different

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• Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Money, Men, Cases

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• If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.

  George Carlin

  Money, Church, Want

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• Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Witty, Money

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• Never spend your money before you have earned it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Debt Free, Owing A Debt

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• The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Arsonists, Vacant

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• Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

  Werner Herzog

  Intellectual, Film, Kung Fu

  "Herzog on Herzog: Conversations with Paul Cronin". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

  Karl Marx

  Writing, Mean, Order

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• The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Nature, Counterparts

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.645, Library of America

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• Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Money, Vanity, Criticism

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• Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

  Dale Carnegie

  Flattery, Trouble, Ifs

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Sacrifice, Pay, Oath

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• Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sacrifice, Counterfeit

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1933). “Bonfire”

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• Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

  Diane de Poitiers

  Calumny Is, People, Coins

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• Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.

  Randall Jarrell

  Real, Criticism, Prison

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Contemporary Poetry Criticism" (p. 62), 1980.

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