Purse Quotes

Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse. (Benjamin Franklin)
I ran three miles today. Finally I said, Lady take your purse. View quote
Emo Philips
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I`m not the thief who grabs your purse. I`m not the guy who jacks your car. I`m not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I`m just a brother who fight back. View quote
Tupac Shakur
I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life third, because although they took my all, it was not much and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. View quote
Matthew Henry
He who has his thumb on the purse has the power. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
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. View quote
Harold Wilson
I'm so glad Courtney Love is here; I left my crack in my other purse. View quote
Sarah Silverman
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. View quote
Shelley Long
I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock. View quote
Howard Stern
The purse strings tie us to our kind. (Walter Bagehot)
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The horseman serves the horse, The neatherd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'T is the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind; Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse? View quote
Robert Burns
It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm. View quote
William Winwood Reade
As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now. View quote
Charlaine Harris
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom. View quote
Adelbert von Chamisso
The heart wants what the heart wants," she says, somewhat cryptically. I purse my lips in disapproval. "You'd think the heart would know better. View quote
Candace Bushnell
Shaunee was digging in her purse like she'd misplaced a tube of one of MAC's seasonal lipsticks that you buy and fall in love with AND THEN THEY DISCONTINUE IT BECAUSE THEY REALLY HATE US AND WANT US TO BE CRAZY. View quote
P. C. Cast
A car for every purse and purpose. (Alfred P. Sloan)
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. View quote
Dennis Weaver
I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter. View quote
Venus Williams
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. View quote
Alma Gluck
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear. View quote
J. B. Morton