“ I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse. ”
- Nicholas Breton- Copy
- 484
“ No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 2K
“ Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse. ”
- St. Jerome- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Your purse should not be closed so tightly that a kind impulse is not able to open it. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 2.3K
“ 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 R. Augustine- Copy
- 3.7K
“ My purse, my person, my extremist means, lie all unlocked to your occasion. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.4K
“ It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Our purses shall be proud, our graments poor: For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 377
“ Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. ”
- Johann Georg Zimmermann- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Open your mouth and purse cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. ”
- Johann Georg Zimmermann- Copy
- 664
“ When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror. ”
- Margaret Turnbull- Copy
- 1.7K
“ A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. ”
- Sir Thomas More- Copy
- 3K
“ A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul. ”
- Elizabeth Grymeston- Copy
- 825
“ A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes. ”
- Fontenelle- Copy
- 980
“ If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
- 3K
“ Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 3K
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