Punch Marked Coins

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

    At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
    —E.E. (Edward Estlin)

    Our books of science, as they improve in accuracy, are in danger of losing the freshness and vigor and readiness to appreciate the real laws of Nature, which is a marked merit in the ofttimes false theories of the ancients.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,
    I drew the white sheet over the islands
    And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)