Purses Quotes - Page 3

• People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of their hearts. If you desire to become a more generous person do not change your income. Change your heart.

  John C. Maxwell

  Heart, People, Generosity

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• The beauty and the fashion industry want to control you. And the way that they do it through your body. So once they control your body they control your purse and the products you buy. Its a fantastic strategy and it's working.

  Anita Roddick

  Fashion, Body, Want

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.

  Adrian Rogers

  Jesus, Heart, Eye

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• When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.

  Margaret Turnbull

  Women, Mirrors, Looks

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• I don't carry little purses. I carry big duffels, always.

  Diane Keaton

  Littles, Bigs

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• A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fighting, Men, Coins

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.776, Bantam

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• The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy award voter with a tampon in her purse.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Awards, People

  "Joan Rivers: the best of her career in clips and quotes" by Lilah Raptopoulos, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2014.

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• Took flowers from a hearse, romanced a nurse. Put the girl asleep, then I went through her purse.

  Coolio

  Girl, Flower, Nurse

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• Seriously. Who needed a real lover when you had a handsome, affectionate man who adored you, put a beautiful house over your head, gave you a great job, lavished you with fabulous clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry and would never break your heart?

  Kristen Ashley

  Beautiful, Jobs, Real

  Kristen Ashley (2012). “Play it Safe”, p.123, Rock Chick LLC

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• The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Meat, Corn

  "Ode Inscribed toW. H. Channing" l. 50 (1847)

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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

  Book, Law, Stealing

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

  William Cowper

  Home, Thieves, Wealth

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.129

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• Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings

  John Motson

  Wenger, Strings

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• 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

  Despair, Milk, Purpose

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.78

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• Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.

  Fanny Kemble

  Christmas, Shopping, Broken

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• The only legitimate use for a glove is to cover an injury... A desire to prevent callus formation (possibly so as to not snag one's pantyhose) does not constitute a legitimate use. And if you do insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Desire, Doe, Use

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• There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

  P. T. Barnum

  Morning, Men, Luck

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.49, Applewood Books

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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

  Ears, Literature, Way

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• Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn't started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out of my purse and shot him, because I am the only person who would not have been searched.

  Greta Garbo

  War, Taken, Writing

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Pulse, Physicians

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.56, University of Georgia Press

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• There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not only large but truly democratic-dedicated to the cause of the people rather than that of the purse potentates-devoted more to the news of the New than the Old World-that will expose all fraud and sham, fight all public evils and abuses-that will sever and battle for the people with earnest sincerity.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Fighting, Cities, People

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• In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable resistance. Older chaps roll their eyes, slick young businesswomen purse their mouths, teenagers look disgusted, waitresses anxious. But it strikes me as ironic that many members of the public fret about British Muslims donning the hijab, yet happily condone the veiling of nursing mothers.

  Rowan Pelling

  Mother, Baby, Teenager

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• My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

  Joseph Howe

  Book, Library, World

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• 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

  Fashion, Fats, Millionaire

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• To cash paid for saddlery, a letter case, maps, glasses, etc etc etc. for the use of my Command: 29 pounds 13 shillings and sixpence... To Mrs Washington's travelling expenses in coming to and returning from my winter quarters, the money to defray that taken from my private purse: 1064 pounds, one shilling.

  George Washington

  Taken, Winter, Glasses

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