Top 25 Quotes About Counterfeit Money
#1. Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
Sydney J. Harris
#2. If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.
George Carlin
#3. 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
#5. Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#6. Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.
Dale Carnegie
#7. When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.
Voltaire
#8. Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
Werner Herzog
#9. The idea of money is older than the idea of counterfeit money, but older, perhaps, by no more than a few minutes.
St. Clair McKelway
#10. 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
#11. Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#12. Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.
Diane De Poitiers
#13. Of course, there are many rich men in the empire, but their money is buried, and they dress in rags and counterfeit poverty.
Mark Twain
#14. Death is like a fisherman who has caught a fish in his net and leaves it for a time in the water: the fish still swims about, but the net surrounds it, and the fisherman will take it when he wishes.
Ivan Turgenev
#15. Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.
Thomas Aquinas
#16. Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I'm from where I'm from. I was a big champion of where I was from and Wisconsin in general, and the Midwest.
Justin Vernon
#17. Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
Michel De Montaigne
#19. Lesson learned: One person's success can be perceived as another's loss. Productivity is more important to some people than others. Those same people for whom productivity is not so important are often green-eyed with envy when someone else makes money. The
Douglas Wallace
#20. Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Jean Paul
#22. The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust of the human mind, the mind which makes out of the mass of meaningless data in the world an order and a form.
Rollo May
#23. We have our clothes, some more splendid than others, - this is our credit; but when a man dies he has only his skin;
Alexandre Dumas
#24. Truth for us nowadays is not what is, but what others can be brought to accept: just as we call money not only legal tender but any counterfeit coins in circulation.
Michel De Montaigne
#25. The money you need is down here, not up in Heaven. He doesn't have any currencies up there. He's not going to rain any money down from Heaven because if He did, it would be counterfeit, and He's not a counterfeiter.
Paul Silway
