Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money…

I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished,…

— Elizabeth I

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

— Dale Carnegie

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.

— George Carlin

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

— Anonymous

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

— Werner Herzog

“It's a shame, when I'm at the checkout line, and the cashier holds up my bill to the light, in search for a ghost…

— Anthony Liccione

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

— Diane de Poitiers

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when…

— Voltaire

Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few…

— Randall Jarrell

“The idea of money is older than the idea of counterfeit money, but older, perhaps, by no more than a few minutes.”

— St. Clair McKelway

True friends appear less mov'd than counterfeit; As men that grieve at funerals are not so loud as those that cry for hire

— Horace

We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to…

— Timothy Keller