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Your Quotes for 3 March 2006 - Coins

Coinage played a surprising role on this day in history, specifically three acts of the US Congress. In 1849 they passed the Gold Coinage Act, allowing coins to be minted from the gold recently discovered in the west. Two years later the smallest silver coin was authorized, the 3-cent piece. And in 1875 they authorized a 20-cent coin, apparently not well received as it was only issued for three years. Today, I'm authorizing the release of these quotes on 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

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