Japanese Currency/tokugawa Currency 17-19th Century

Famous quotes containing the words japanese, currency and/or century:

    The Japanese say, “If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.”
    Lester Cole, U.S. screenwriter, Nathaniel Curtis, and Frank Lloyd. Nick Condon (James Cagney)

    It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic
    structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?
    Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)

    The wound that’s made by fire will heal,
    But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.
    Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)