Best Coins Quotes

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

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

The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he’s pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.

Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government.

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You’ve got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I’ve got my Freud mixed up. It’s just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

Music and improving the world are two sides of the same coin.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms? . . . And when you give alms, do you touch the hand of the one to whom you give alms, or do you toss the coin?

The promises of God are equal to current coin. Therefore, I must act on the promises as I would if I actually had the cash.

I can juggle, not well… I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.

Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.

I think vulnerability and sensuality, they’re sides of the same coin.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

Low carbon, resource efficient solutions and halting then reversing population growth are two sides of the same coin

The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company of the great, mercuric, encyclopedic minds: Empson, Kenneth Burke, Northrop Frye.

If I had the flag that Betsy Ross worked so hard on, I wouldn’t destroy it. I’d put it up on EBay because it’s gotta be worth some serious coin. And that is the American way.

Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they’re going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.

I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country’s past. Bring it back!

I’m not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.

The way is open, comrades, free as Space
Alone is free. The only gold is love,
A coin that we have minted from the light
Of others who have cared for us on Earth
And who have deposited in us the power
That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars.

Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person’s whole life from one moment to the next. But there’s the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.

If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal. But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.

Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.

A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

You’re like, both like, Alexander the Great.’ We can’t both be Alexander.’ Well sometimes I think you’re two side of the same coin, and I’m the metal in between.