Punch Marked Coins

Famous quotes containing the words punch, marked and/or coins:

    “Lilly Dillon: How’d you get that punch in the stomach, Roy?
    Roy Dillon: I tripped on a chair.
    Lilly Dillon: Get off the grift, Roy.
    Roy Dillon: Why?
    Lilly Dillon: You haven’t got the stomach for it.”
    —Donald E. Westlake (b. 1933)

    “The Anglican Church is marked by the grace and good sense of its forms, by the manly grace of its clergy. The gospel it preaches is, “By taste are ye saved.” ... It is not in ordinary a persecuting church; it is not inquisitorial, not even inquisitive, is perfectly well bred and can shut its eyes on all proper occasions. If you let it alone, it will let you alone. But its instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)