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  • labloverlablover Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Be the kind of person your dog thinks you are" Unknown

    "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." Will Rogers
  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,863 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

    • T. Roosevelt
  • WinLoseWinWinLoseWin Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not so famous quotes but maybe should be.

    "...Here's a hobby that's worth anybody's time; collecting money." - - -Mr. Milburn Drysdale, banker, on The Beverly Hillbillies
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    Mr. Drysdale: "This collection belongs to a friend of mine. You see that dime? He paid $12,000 dollars for that."

    Jed Clampett: "He got slickered. A dime is only worth ten cents."
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    The episode is viewable in this post by Frankcoins on the "Jed Clampett on (stamp and) coin collecting" thread.

    https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/12551252/#Comment_12551252

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    "To Be Esteemed Be Useful" - 1792 Birch Cent --- "I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain." - Lily Tomlin

  • IntueorIntueor Posts: 310 ✭✭✭✭
    edited February 29, 2020 7:25PM

    A Numismatist is a person who saves money for people they will never know.

    unus multorum
  • BustDMsBustDMs Posts: 1,699 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There is no Santa Claus in numismatics.

    Q: When does a collector become a numismatist?



    A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.



    A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
  • SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,515 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lady Astor and Winston Churchill were known to dislike each other. At a party the following is reputed to have been said between them:

    Lady Astor: "Sir Winston, if I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee".

    Winston Churchill: "Lady Astor, if you were my wife I would drink the coffee".

  • leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If there's a will, there's a way. If there's not a way.....I'll invent one. Myself. :)

    The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!

    My Jefferson Nickel Collection

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Buy the best you can afford. It still might not sticker."

  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 1, 2020 5:35AM

    "When are you gonna start using your head for more than just a hat rack?" --- my Dad, endless times when I was a child. :p

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