Coins

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.
- Alan Watts

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
- Jerome Seymour Bruner

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
- François Rabelais, 1494 - 1553

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
- Jules Renard, 1864 - 1910

Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security. It also can be translated into a source of bitterness.
- Sylvia Porter

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.
- Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910