Coins Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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

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 in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

Advice, the smallest current coin.

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

The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, "Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper," and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.

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

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?

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

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

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

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

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

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

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

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