Top 39 Coinage Quotes
#1. When depreciated, mutilated, or debased coinage (or currency) is in concurrent circulation with money of high value in terms of precious metals, the good money automatically disappears.
Thomas Gresham
#2. We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!
Virchand Gandhi
#3. The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
Aristophanes
#4. Words are gold, split and shared as coinage, small pebbles, emblems offered back and forth-given, received; given, received-expanding the vocabulary of the soul
Michael O'Brien
#5. I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.
Bill Pullman
#6. The debased coinage of his reign bore his initials, ICR: Iohannes Casimirus Rex. These were taken to stand for Initium Calamitatum Reipublicae, the Beginning of the Republic's Catastrophes.
Norman Davies
#7. This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.
William Shakespeare
#8. In the morning it was fine, with one of those glittering sharp days that December sometimes throws down like bright gold among the lead of winter's coinage.
Mary Stewart
#9. Books were put out, and 'had a run,' / Like coinage from the mint; / But which could fill the place of one, / That one they wouldn't print?
Phoebe Cary
#11. The easiest way to buy silver was to take a paper dollar to the bank and ask for change. So much coinage was disappearing from circulation that the government was forced to remove silver from U.S. coinage beginning in 1965.
Michael Maloney
#12. Back then I used to say that I despised the new coinage "quality time," that it was yuppie parents' smiley-face equivalent to lawyers' "billable hours.
Kurt Andersen
#13. But when States did debase the coinage, it was always from purely fiscal motives. The government needed financial help, that was all; it was not concerned with questions of currency policy.
Ludwig Von Mises
#14. Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.
Naomi Mitchison
#15. Silently, sadly, the earth covered life coinage is read both ways; so much vs. so little and ... so little vs. ... so much!
Wes Adamson
#16. I eagerly await more complex concentricity in our Canadian coinage.
Jessica Grant
#17. What is it to know a variety of languages, but merely to have a variety of sounds express the same idea? Original thought is ore of the mind; language is but the stamp and coinage by which it is put into circulation.
Washington Irving
#18. Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
William Butler Yeats
#19. What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
Richard Parks Bland
#20. To laughter! The bright coinage of the bank of good will.
Minna Antrim
#21. The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#22. Gold and Silver have been the predominant currency for 4,500 years, but they became money in Lydia, in about 680 B.C. When they were minted into coins of equal weight in order to make trade easier and smoother. But it was when coinage first made its appearance in Athens that it truly flourished.
Michael Maloney
#23. Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured political candidates promising economic relief through free and unlimited coinage of silver.
Robert Dallek
#24. Control the coinage and the courts - let the rabble have the rest.
Frank Herbert
#25. I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State ...
H.G.Wells
#27. VLADIMIR: Moron!
ESTRAGON: Vermin!
VLADIMIR: Abortion!
ESTRAGON: Morpion!
VLADIMIR: Sewer-rat!
ESTRAGON: Curate!
VLADIMIR: Cretin!
ESTRAGON: (with finality). Crritic!
VLADIMIR: Oh!
He wilts, vanquished, and turns away.
Samuel Beckett
#28. I do not believe," whispered Father Sunder, "in any God that considers love to be a sin.
Andrew Davidson
#29. Everything you try to do in life, of any value, people are going to be saying, 'No, no, no.' You have to have the ability to not see that or hear that.
Amy Heckerling
#31. You don't know why God has put that person in your path. It's not a coincidence. He's strategically lined up every person, every detail and every step of your life. Now do your part
don't miss an opportunity to do good for others.
Joel Osteen
#32. Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.
Jane Bryant Quinn
#33. Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.
Og Mandino
#34. Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the total and mutual gift of self.
Dietrich Von Hildebrand
#35. A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
Voltaire
#37. The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
Jean Baudrillard
#38. As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.
Gore Vidal
#39. As a means of extracting information during interrogations, torture is notoriously unreliable, but as a means of terrorizing and controlling populations, nothing is quite as effective.
Naomi Klein
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