Coins Quotes - Page 4

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

A runner is a miser, spending the pennies of his energy with great stinginess, constantly wanting to know how much he has spent and how much longer he will be expected to pay. He wants to be broke at precisely the moment he no longer needs his coin.

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

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

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.

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

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...

I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind

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 . . .

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's just always been something. I love collecting coins from around the world in my travels but I they don't really do anything useful anymore, I guess.

I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

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

Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.

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.

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

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

The truth and its opposite are flip sides 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.

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

[Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible. My life was totally turned upside down. I was followed, spied upon, adored, insulted. My private life became public.

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

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