Coins Quotes

• Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.

  Kate Klise

  Faces, Librarian, Valuable

  Kate Klise, M. Sarah Klise (2011). “Till Death Do Us Bark”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Flip a coin. When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for.

  Arnold Rothstein

  Air, Flipping A Coin, Sides

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• There's always two sides to the coin if you have the patience to see.

  Kathryn Budig

  Two Sides, Ifs, Two

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• Every side of a coin has another side.

  Myron Scholes

  Sides, Scholes

  "Crash Course". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 2009.

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• Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Attitude

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• Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspiration, Care, Take Care

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  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.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Change, Time

  Teacher, Volume 43, 1971.

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• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on

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• In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.

  Steve Jobs

  Two Sides, Weakness, Gears

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mind, Pouring, Purses

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• Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.

  John Hendy

  Two Sides, Genius, Madness

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• Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds.

  David Allen

  Creativity, Two Sides, World

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• Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Mean, Two

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• Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Philosophical, Thinking, Today

  Song: I Feel Lucky, 1992

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• My advice is flip a coin. If you regret the way it landed, then go with your gut.

  Justin Kan

  Regret, Advice, Way

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• Keep your coins, I want change.

  Banksy

  Want

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• Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

  Euripides

  Gold, Flipping A Coin, World

  "Oedipus". Play by Euripides, estimated between 415 and 406 BCE.

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• Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

  Carl Sandburg

  Self Respect

  At his 85th birthday party on January 06, 1963. "The Best of Ralph McGill: Selected Columns" by Ralph McGill, edited by Michael Strickland, Harry Davis, and Jeff Strickland, p. 82, 1980.

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• Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

  Ned Rorem

  Humor, Two Sides, Flipping A Coin

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.149, Open Road Media

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• A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

  Chaim Potok

  Two, Silence, Silence Is

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

  Harold Geneen

  Life, Motivational, Graduation

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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• A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

  Annie Proulx

  Fall, May, Spinning

  Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• The same thing can be both good and bad. Whenever you speak of good, bad is also present. The world is a mixture of both. There is not good without bad. They are both sides of the same coin. Both are necessary. We have been given free will and discriminating capacity to select what is beneficial to us and to avoid what is detrimental to us. Even Cobra poison can be used as medicine.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Medicine, Poison, World

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• Greatness is a two-faced coin - and the reverse is humility.

  Marguerite Steen

  Inspirational, Humility, Greatness

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• I got here the same way the coin did.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Way

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “No Country for Old Men”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

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