111 Quotes About Coins

Money doesn't spend in hell.... The devil deals in a different coin.

In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.

It's felt it's too soon after the introduction of euro notes and coins for any change. The ECB will not do anything to overshadow that move.

On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.