Pockets Quotes - Page 2

• The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

  Kin Hubbard

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

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• If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Years, Taxation

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, M. Jane Johansson (2001). “The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915”, p.331, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Build pockets of stillness into your life.

  Maria Popova

  Entrepreneur, Stillness

  "Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading, Writing, and Living". www.brainpickings.org. October 23, 2013.

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• We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives.

  Robin Gibb

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Evil, Theatre, Months

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• The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

  Juvenal

  Thieves, Faces, Empty

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• Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

  Gertrude Stein

  Money, Literature, Saving Money

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.31, Random House

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• The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

  Sara Gruen

  Littles, Protect

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• It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Friendship, Inspiration, Coins

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• I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Money, Men, White Man

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• It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.

  Ian Rankin

  Laughter, Found

  Ian Rankin (2014). “Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel”, p.9, Macmillan

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• An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

  Constance Rourke

  Humorous, Men, Emotional

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• For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Space, Born

  Source: blog.noisetrade.com

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• Rule One. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Differences, Assets, Liability

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• The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Government

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 17 (1781 - 1785)

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• If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Sex, Humor

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• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Attitude, Failure

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• We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.

  Pauline Hanson

  Country, Looks, Investors

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. August 1, 2016.

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• If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.

  Jodi Picoult

  Long, Enough, Related

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “The Pact: A Love Story”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• It's kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world has ever created.

  Trent Reznor

  Song, Thinking, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

  Booker T. Washington

  Communication, Vocabulary, Rifles

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• Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Peace, Government, Hands

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 16

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• I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.

  John Updike

  Art, Book, Home

  John Updike's tstimony given before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor in Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1978.

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• I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received.

  Bill Dixon

  Letting Go, Player, Thinking

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• What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset. "Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Talking, Upset, Littles

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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