Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.
In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.
Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.
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.
I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.
Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.
Less coin, less care.
I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.
The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.
To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D. C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day.
'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up. ' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'
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.
Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.
My debt to you, Belovèd, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.
Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.
How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.