Purses Quotes · Page 5

Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.

— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

— John Lyly

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.

— Gertrude Stein

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

— Charles Lamb

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

— Benjamin Franklin

“My purse, like all purses, seems to have a traveling black hole in it.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

— Khalil Gibran

There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.

— Martin Luther

If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.

— Harold Laski

Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.

— Russell Baker

The heart wants what the heart wants," she says, somewhat cryptically. I purse my lips in disapproval. "You'd think the heart would…

— Candace Bushnell

Women's clutches are too small. I open my purse, and with some hydraulic force, a tampon shoots 12 feet into the air.

— Kelly Ripa

Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.

— William Cowper

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy…

— Roger Ascham

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman…

— Fanny Kemble

From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean,…

— Harold Wilson

'We only have two things to worry about… One that things will never get back to normal And two that they already…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once…

— William Shakespeare

King gives you this 'bro' stuff and tells you that the white man did this and we should stick together. Then he…

— Randall "Tex" Cobb

Amen,' I exclaim, accidentally spitting out a Raisinet. I pick up the chocolate with a Kleenex and stuff it in my purse.…

— Jen Lancaster

Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere.…

— Michael Pollan

Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to…

— Benjamin Franklin

There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants;…

— Herbert Spencer

If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill…

— Jonathan Swift

Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of…

— Rose Macaulay

These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with…

— Stephen Crane

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got…

— Karl Kraus

If your purse no longer bulges and you've lost your golden treasure, If times you think you're lonely and have hungry grown…

— Edgar Guest

I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use…

— Charlotte Bronte

Carrying a small notebook with you always, in your pocket or purse, along with a reliable ballpoint pen will enable you to…

— Lee Wyndham

A junkie will steal your purse, and then help you look for it.

— Craig Ferguson

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

— Otto von Bismarck

My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse.

— Sharon Stone

If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.

— Mark Rippetoe

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

— Ambrose Bierce

You might be a redneck if your wife keeps a can of Vienna sausage in her purse.

— Jeff Foxworthy

That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.

— Saadi

I'm one of those people who have everything in their purses.

— Bethenny Frankel