Purses Quotes - Page 12

• I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.

  Coolio

  Holiday, Infidelity, Causes

  Song: Too Hot, Album: Fantastic Voyage: The Greatest Hits

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• For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Library, Return

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• When you're dealing with TV and with movies, people dont take it as serious as they do with music. If a rapper does a song about shooting people on the block, and goes into a restaurant or grocery store, people grab their purses because they're afraid the person is violent. With TV and movies, people know it's okay, it's just a script.

  Suge Knight

  Song, Block, Rapper

  "The Life and Times of Suge Knight". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. June 18, 2007.

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• It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Struggle, Men, Mind

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• Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.

  George Chapman

  Wise, Business, Light

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.452

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• World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

  Denis Healey

  Money, Issues, Political

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• A car for every purse and purpose.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Car, Purpose

  Alfred P Sloan (2015). “My Years With General Motors”, p.512, eNet Press

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• On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

  Morgan Saylor

  Book, Average, Play

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• Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home,
  And so am come abroad to see the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Travel, Home, Crowns

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.427, Oxford University Press

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• Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Gold, Mutiny

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.760, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in it—you will be mine.

  Pat Schneider

  Character, Hair, Car

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Art, Husband, Father

  Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

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• Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife,
  In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains
  A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain
  New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale

  John Phillips

  Money, Pain, Men

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• He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

  James Howell

  Money, Want, Shoulders

  James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”, p.13

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• Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

  Herman Melville

  Money, Travel, Cash

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.148, Northwestern University Press

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• In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
  That old perplexity an empty purse,
  Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

  William Butler Yeats

  Work, Frustration, Night

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Where might is, the right is:
  Long purses make strong swords.
  Let weakness learn meekness:
  God save the House of Lords!

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Strong, Long, House

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1275, Delphi Classics

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• Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled.

  Herman Melville

  Morning, Night, Mouths

  Herman Melville (1988). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.198, Northwestern University Press

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• The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Physicians, Patient, Cases

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• Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy.

  Norman Mailer

  Class, People, History

  "In the Ring" by Norman Mailer, www.newyorker.com. October 6, 2008.

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• I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Light, Years, Age

  Brownlee Jean Kirkpatrick, Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan (1989). “Katherine Mansfield: selected letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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

  Air, Feet, Tampons

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• John Kerry is busy trying to raise money right now for his campaign. It was reported today that Kerry's hoping to raise $80 million before the Democratic convention. That's a lot of money. Yeah, Kerry has two ways to raise the $80 million: soliciting Democratic donors and going through his wife's purse.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, Wife, Trying

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• Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.

  Lauren Conrad

  Artist, Architect

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

  Saadi

  Cutting, People, Pearls

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