Roy Blount Jr. Quotes

Words are the small change of thought.

Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'

Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

There's nothing as real as money.

Money is a kind of poetry.

People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money.

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

The gold coin is spent.

Now, Gold and Silver contribute very little in their own nature to our Lives, for which all Earthly Things seem to have been created. Yet Men, as if they would make Nature asham'd of this, have agreed to make those Metals of equal vaue to all other things, to make 'em the Price and Measrue of all, and the Instruments of changing and exchanging whatever can be found good in this World.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

If you take the MY out of money, you're left with ONE.

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.

Money: power at its most liquid.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.

Money is information, like bits.

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

Treasury notes are a precarious substitute either for coin or for bank notes, charges as they are with a growing interest, productive of no countervailing profit or emolument, and exposed to every breadth of popular prejudice or alarm.

A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. Its value is in the necessities of the animal man. It is so much warmth, so much bread, so much water, so much land.

Gold and Silver

Money was of no value whatever. Gold is quite unknown; it is thought to be brass; trade is carried on by barter alone. The people know nothing of money.

We will never cause any money to be coined in the land of any of the princes which shall be injurious to his coinage.