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Coins Quotes - Page 6

I got here the same way the coin did.

Cormac McCarthy (2010). “No Country for Old Men”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

Barry N. Malzberg (2007). “Breakfast in the Ruins”, p.206, Baen Publishing Enterprises

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Bernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value people place on money.

William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.184, Macmillan

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

Thomas Carlyle (1838). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh ; In Three Books ...”, p.129

So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort. IN PAIRS.

"Mort". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1987.

Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand.

Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.12, Macmillan