111 Quotes About Coins

The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value thereof" - but rather delegated that authority, sometimes by charter and sometimes by default, to the banking system. This despite the provision in the Constitution that charged Congress with the power to 'coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standards of weight and Measures.'

I grab coins and tees in my travels, but I usually mark my ball with a coin from Argentina, either a peso or a 10-centavo piece.

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

There's two heads to every coin.

some of the coins are so rare that I hate to see them go.

Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.

All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.

Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.