Empty Purse Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.

David Crockett

#3. The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

William Cranch Bond

#4. There is a vast difference between having some coin and no coin. There is a feeling of helplessness that comes from an empty purse.

Patrick Rothfuss

#5. 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

#6. When the purse becomes empty, the mind becomes full of issues.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

Louise Brooks

#8. Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

Havelock Ellis

#9. Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.

Walter Kirn

#10. A dress is a weapon. It must dazzle his eye, raise his temperature ... and empty his purse.

Loretta Chase

#11. I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.

Nicholas Breton

#12. In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

Elizabeth Goudge

#13. A Chihuahua. They're good. If you lose one, just empty out your purse.

Jean Carroll

#14. Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.

Sathya Sai Baba

#15. They'd had to empty their pockets and turn over Aunt Val's purse to the security guard. That way, I wouldn't be tempted to try to kill anyone with her lip gloss and her travel-size pack of tissues.

Rachel Vincent

#16. I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.

Peggy Lee

#17. The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.

Juvenal

#18. My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.

Marc Chagall

#19. Loving does not empty the heart, nor giving empty the purse.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#20. We hunt in Florida, where I live in Jay. I hunt in Alabama a little bit, on my uncle's land. I go to Illinois and hunt with some friends up there. I hunt in Mississippi and Missouri.

Boo Weekley

#21. In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

Charles Dickens

#22. The Evejah tells us: When a man's purse is empty, his rivals grow bolder.

Peter V. Brett

#23. I more proudly take a speck from a man with empty pockets," said Sabetha, "than riches from a man whose purse stays heavy.

Scott Lynch

#24. He'd come to Styria looking for honest work. But when the purse runs empty, dishonest work has to do.

Joe Abercrombie

#25. Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

Pietro Aretino

#26. 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

#27. This is the woman I'm t' marry! Where have ye been all me life, me love?"
And without a blink, I replied, "Don't start with me, ye scoundrel! If ye come with an empty purse, ye can leave now, fer I'd rather be unwed than unfed.

Karen Hawkins

#28. Trying to restore some kind of natural balance of humors in the world.

Kate Atkinson

#29. For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.

R. Scott Bakker