Specie Quotes

#1. Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.

John Maynard Keynes

#2. If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.

Thomas Nagel

#3. Every bird will follow it's specie.

Rumi

#4. Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

Max Beerbohm

#5. Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

Lord Chesterfield

#6. The Jacksonians were not monetary nationalists; specie was specie, and they saw no reason that foreign gold or silver coins should not circulate with the same full privileges as American-minted coins.

Murray Rothbard

#7. Dick" Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of specie and the tender admonition, "Got to 'scram,

Thomas Pynchon

#8. Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. Increasingly, the girl child is becoming an endangered specie as
pedophiles' continue to roam free in our societies terrorizing
the lives of our children and stripping them of all the joy and
excitement that comes with childhood.

Oche Otorkpa

#10. It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I believe it to be one of those cases where mercantile clamor will bear down reason, until it is corrected by ruin.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. Originally, Congress provided in 1793 that all foreign coins circulating in the United States be legal tender. Indeed, foreign coins have been estimated to form 80 percent of American domestic specie circulation in 1800.

Murray Rothbard

#12. The truth is ladies ... Good men are an endangered specie. So if you have a good man dont shuffle your KING for a JOKER.

Crystal Evans

#13. That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets.

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. Larousse Gastronomique has always been the first and last word on classic European techniques and recipes. I love that it has expanded its reach to cover world cuisines and modern culinary innovations, making it more indispensable than ever.

Marcus Samuelsson

#15. That which we look on with unselfish love
And true humility is surely ours,
Even as a lake looks at the stars above
And makes within itself a heaven of stars.

Mary Gardiner Brainard

#16. Demonstrating patience and kindness to those around us in concrete ways blesses and enriches us as well. - Louise D. Flanders -

Gary Chapman

#17. One of those people with invisible thorns, preventing others from getting too close.

Sarah Addison Allen

#18. One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.

Mike Leigh

#19. Great grief contains dejection. They discourage existence.

Victor Hugo