Best Purses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

Source: Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland

“A drunkards purse is a bottle.”

Bottles Purses Drunkards

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“A good bargaine is a pick-purse. [A good bargain is a pick-purse.]”

Picks Bargains Purses

Author:George Herbert

“A good prayer is master of anothers purse.”

Prayer Masters Purses Good Prayer

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.”

May Stories Use Mountain Benefits Increase Envy Access Generosity Abundance Thrive Application Salt Decay Uncertain Purses Merchants Carried Away

Author:Herbert Spencer

“Doctor, feel my purse.”

Feels Doctors Purses

Author:Jane Ace

“I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.”

Men Lying Black White Middle Males Purses Baffled Fetch

Book:...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel

Source: ...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel

“It seems like only yesterday that savers were dorks. They kept piggy banks. They drove last year's cars. They fished in their change purses for nickels while the superstars flashed credit cards. Today, values have changed. The new object of veneration is not money on the hoof but money in the bank - and the dorks all have it.”

Years Seems Today Lasts Values Money Car Objects Changed Credit Yesterday Cards Last Year Purses Credit Card Superstar Nickels Veneration Dork Piggy Piggy Bank

Book:Making the Most of Your Money

Source: Making the Most of Your Money

“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and my books are the first items I pack into a suitcase. I am the person who family and friends call when they need a book recommendation or cannot remember who wrote Heidi. My identity as a person is so entwined with my love of reading and books that I cannot separate the two.”

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

Two Book Play Average Two Things Purses

Author:Morgan Saylor

“Never without a shilling in my purse.”

Purses

Author:Horace

“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.”

Men Made Spirit Found Chance Conscience Gold Shame Obstacles Bosoms Beggar Purses Blushing Mutiny

Book:First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

“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.”

People World Turns Class History Republican Ears Shame Embarrassed Purses Silk Readiness World Class Toady

Author:Norman Mailer

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

Years Light Age Poor Principles Appetite Obscure Purses Eighteen

Book:Katherine Mansfield: selected letters

Source: Katherine Mansfield: selected letters

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

Force Air Feet Purses Clutch Tampons

Author:Kelly Ripa

“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.”

Way Trying Two Today Millions Wife Right Now Raises Yeah Democratic Busy Campaigns Conventions Lots Of Money Two Ways Purses John Kerry Donors

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.”

Artist Architect Purses

Author:Lauren Conrad

“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.”

Source: Writing Alone and with Others

“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.”

Night Left Work Empty Mark Luck Vanity Frustration Toil Remorse Purses Perplexity

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

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

Wells Money Travel Pens Cash Ink Purses

Book:Correspondence

Source: Correspondence

“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.”

Stills Night Morning Mystery Mouths Remains Filled Purses Transcendentalism Practicality

Book:The Confidence-man: His Masquerade

Source: The Confidence-man: His Masquerade

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

Want Money Shoulders Purses

Book: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)

Source: 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)

“Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear”

Trying Past Negative Ears Purses Finding Happiness Silk

Author:Sydney Banks

“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.”