Posts Tagged ‘coins’
W.C. Handy: Counted Small Coins
on Saturday, November 16, 2019W.C. Handy Money Quote saying that saving for his first guitar was an experience of nearly unbearable desire. W.C. Handy said:
“The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk” — W.C. Handy
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Neil Gaiman: Lose Money Gamble
on Sunday, November 10, 2019Neil Gaiman Money Quote saying there are actually people who enjoy losing money on slot machines and get carried away by bells and flashing lights. Neil Gaiman said:
“The secret is this: people gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and turn with the cards and lose themselves, with the coins, in the slots” — Neil Gaiman
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Matthew: Blood Money Buy Potter’s Field
on Friday, November 20, 2015Matthew 27:5-8 Money Quote saying Judas laments over betraying Jesus to priests and discards the blood money in the temple. Matthew 27:5-8 said:
Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself. The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.” So they decided to use the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners. That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day
— Matthew 27:5-8
Harold Green: Business Paid in Two Coins
on Friday, November 13, 2015Harold Green Money Quotation saying payment of experience can be of far more value than money when a business depends on it. Harold Green said:
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later
— Harold Green
Ursula K. Le Guin: No Coinage But Power
on Sunday, June 7, 2015Ursula K. Le Guin Money Quotation saying governments deal only with the powerful, whether corporations or other governments and it issues that power. Ursula K. Le Guin said:
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Shakespeare on Counterfeiting Coins
on Friday, August 16, 2013Shakespeare Money Quotation saying Governments mint coins at will, while citizens would face steep penalties for that act. Shakespeare said:
No, they can’t accuse me of counterfeiting coins. I’m the king himself — Shakespeare in King Lear