Purses quotes
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There is no portion of our time that is our time, and the rest God's; there is no portion of money that is our money, and the rest God's money. It is all His; He made it all, gives it all, and He has simply trusted it to us for His service. A servant has two purses, the master's and his own, but we have only one.
-- Adolphe Monod -
It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
-- Alan Garner -
A car for every purse and purpose.
-- Alfred P. Sloan -
Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.
-- Alma Gluck -
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For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I'm one of those people who have everything in their purses.
-- Bethenny Frankel -
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Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.
-- Charles Churchill -
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
-- Charles Lamb -
To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
Don't treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.
-- Chris Brogan -
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So you questioned him?" Raisa prompted. "What did he say for himself?" "Well, the first thing Gillen does is steal his purse and beat him with a club." Amon said.
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.
-- Coolio -
The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.
-- David Gerrold -
If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.
-- Dennis Weaver -
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I don't carry little purses. I carry big duffels, always.
-- Diane Keaton -
A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.
-- Emily Post -
I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady...take your purse.'
-- Emo Philips -
Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.
-- Frank Luntz -
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The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of...every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law.
-- Franz Liszt -
you're smart, pretty, and you aren't a douche purse.
-- Gena Showalter -
A lean purse is easier to cure than to endure.
-- George S. Clason -
You’ve no more for me than I have for you.†Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: “How can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you!†“You deceive yourself, sister: not to me, but to my purse!
-- Georgette Heyer -
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If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.
-- Harold Laski -
From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
-- Harold Wilson -
The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]
-- Horace -
Never without a shilling in my purse.
-- Horace -
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He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.
-- James Howell -
Doctor, feel my purse.
-- Jane Ace -
A Chihuahua. They're good. If you lose one, just empty out your purse.
-- Jean Carroll -
Put your toong in your purse.
-- John Heywood -
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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
-- John Lyly -
Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings
-- John Motson -
That's a beautiful purse. I carry a satchel.
-- Josh Mathews -
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for a specific example?" "Fat priests," Royce replied, "with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on the dangers of gluttony and the merits of poverty.
-- Judith McNaught -
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Full purse makes no noise.
-- Juhani Peltonen -
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
-- Juvenal -
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
-- Juvenal -
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould -
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Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder -
A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
-- Louise Brooks -
My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.
-- Marc Chagall -
I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.
-- Maria Sharapova -
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If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.
-- Mark Rippetoe -
I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it... "My purse is full enough," said the magus, "to keep you supplied with roast chickens." "So, so, so," I said. "We know who the power behind the throne is," and the magus laughed. "You eat more than Gen did after prison," he said. "I have more sympathy with him all the time. Are you going to finish that drumstick?" I asked. "I am. Stop staring at it.
-- Megan Whalen Turner -
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.
-- Nathaniel Parker Willis -
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You're never too fat for a new purse.
-- Nia Vardalos -
I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.
-- Nicholas Breton -
I'm not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It's like a man purse. It's a whole thing.
-- Nick Jonas -
I try not to put my purse on the floor - demons will get into it.
-- Nina Arianda -
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The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine -
Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.' You threw away my purse.' I thought it was an enemy.
-- Obert Skye -
He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.
-- Otto von Bismarck -
Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.
-- Paul Lynde -
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I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.
-- Philippa Gregory -
Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free.
-- Richard Henry Stoddard -
Balls are to men what purses are to women.
-- Sarah Jessica Parker -
I'm not as klutzy as I used to be... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time.
-- Shelley Long -
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I am a person who goes out without a purse.
-- Sigourney Weaver -
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
-- St. Jerome -
When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.
-- Theodor Herzl -
Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton -
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You may be less likely to pick on someone if you dont know whats in their briefcase or purse.
-- Trey Gowdy -
I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.
-- Venus Williams -
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
-- Victor Hugo -
Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.
-- William Cowper -
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who want to benefit from the commonwealth must contribute to the common purse.
-- Babatunde Fashola -
I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.
-- Mackenzie Davis -
Every woman should have a purse of her own.
-- Susan B. Anthony -
The bashful beggar has an empty purse.
-- William Cranch Bond -
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He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
-- Petronius -
I'm kind of a weirdo about Krazy Glue. I don't know why, but I always have it in my purse.
-- Eden Sher -
For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.
-- Roger Ascham -
I'm competitive and I have a messy purse, but otherwise, I like people to think I'm a winner.
-- Jenny Slate -
