Purse Quotes

#1. As the crowd thundered, a man eased up beside a thin, pale woman with a bent neck. In the next instant Jane Addams realized her purse was gone. The great fair had begun.

Erik Larson

#2. Grace put her purse on the floor. "My mother says you must never do that," Ruby chastised. "Mine too," I agreed. "Do you want all your money to run out of your purse?

Lisa See

#3. Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

John Lyly

#4. Dios mio, I think my brother lost his balls somewhere between here and Mexico. Or maybe Brittany has them zipped inside that fancy purse (of hers).

Simone Elkeles

#5. The state might say that it had taken a year to write the book, and the author might say it had taken thirty. Goethe said that every bon mot of his had cost a purse of gold. What

Upton Sinclair

#6. The recognition definitely helps and goes a long way for helping me to reaffirm my decision to purse art fulltime. Getting awards and nominations encourages me to keep trying even harder.

Julie Dillon

#7. Alright baby." I grab the soup and my purse. "I think I'm ready to go repel a sad boy. I got my ring, my hickey, a naked face, glasses, and conservative hair, unless you also need to pee on my leg to ensure he picks up your scent?

Gisele Walko

#8. Flee all that's evil, do all that's good, seek what is true, purse only peace, love
unconditionally.'
Warden's Oath

Megan Dent Nagle

#9. 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

#10. I think, in many ways, certain people sought me out maybe because they liked my body language or they liked the way I wore a slit skirt, the way I cross my legs or carry my purse. It's quite inspiring to play the seduction card.

Carine Roitfeld

#11. As women, we'd be exponentially lighter if we'd sort through some of our emotional clutter... We need to dispose of the crud that we no longer need. Excerpt from essay #3 "What's in my Purse?

Dianne Bright

#12. He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

Sarah Dessen

#13. Lacy tugged several tissues from her shoulder bag. "Here." She watched me clean my lips and wipe my nose as she fiddled with her purse strap. "Better?

Kerry Lonsdale

#14. The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

Francis Bacon

#15. It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Saadi

#17. How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social
I mean a purse?

Thomas Carlyle

#18. A good bargaine is a pick-purse.
[A good bargain is a pick-purse.]

George Herbert

#19. Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.

Benjamin Franklin

#20. Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free.

Richard Henry Stoddard

#21. You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.

Joel Edgerton

#22. 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

#23. Your penis will not shrivel up and die if you admit you want an umbrella instead of standing in the rain acting like a little water never hurt anyone. It's an unbrella, not a purse.

Jenny O'Connell

#24. You don't touch the purse. The purse is sacrosanct.

Julie James

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

Katherine Mansfield

#26. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse." Hafid

Og Mandino

#27. Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

Robert Burns

#28. It's not a purse, Rose," Connor chimes in, his lips rising. "It's your future." His amusement is palpable.

Krista Ritchie

#29. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth tens of thousands of dollars. I use PhotoPad to sync our Samasource Flickr account to my iPad and slip it out of my purse at cocktail parties to tell our story.

Leila Janah

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

Juvenal

#31. If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Benjamin Franklin

#32. I carry condoms in my purse, even though I haven't had sex in a long time. I'm hoping for luck! And I carry them so I can give them to other people who might want or need them, or who might want to have a conversation.

Sharon Stone

#33. The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish.
[Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

Horace

#34. Evelyn suspected there was never true equality in marriage. Someone always had stronger feelings, or held the purse strings, or was more persuasive, powerful, and pushy.

Victoria Helen Stone

#35. 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

#36. There's an old saying in the Two Rivers" Rand said dryly. "'The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.'" Another said, "The fox often offers to give the duck its pond.

Robert Jordan

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

Marc Chagall

#38. Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Anne Lamott

#39. Is that what you think I'm going to do? Snap and kill you?" he asked. "Not me, you won't. I keep mace in my purse. You never know what kind of creep'll be shopping for a house." "Wait ... what?" "Invite

John Corey Whaley

#40. Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.

Robert Peel

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

Coolio

#42. It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

Alan Garner

#43. Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

Benjamin Franklin

#44. A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Jonathan Swift

#45. Her purse is like Mary Poppins's bag - it holds way more than should be possible.

Tera Lynn Childs

#46. Put your toong in your purse.

John Heywood

#47. For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

Roger Ascham

#48. You've no more for me than I have for you."
Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: "How can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you!"
"You deceive yourself, sister: not to me, but to my purse!

Georgette Heyer

#49. 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

#50. Look at that. She think I got siphlus and TB and a hard-on and I gonna cut her up with a razor and lif her purse. Ooo-wee.

John Kennedy Toole

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

Sydney Banks

#52. Put money in thy purse.

William Shakespeare

#53. You get really angry when you're hungry. You get hangry. It's like you're not even the same person. Can we keep granola bars in your purse or something? It's just that I worry about my balls.

Colleen Hoover

#54. Kitty, do you have the bottle?"
"In my purse. Which is in my room. Not that I think I can find my room from here."
"I'll get it," Martini said. He stood up and disappeared. Ten seconds later he was back, bottle in hand.
"What kept you?"
"That purse gets worse every time I look inside.

Gini Koch

#55. Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#56. What, not coins in the bank? Does your purse hang as flaccid as a gelding's scrotum?

Neal Stephenson

#57. 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

#58. In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

#59. A good prayer is master of anothers purse.

George Herbert

#60. To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#61. When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.

Jerry Saltz

#62. If you keep all your treasures in one purse, you only make it easier for those who would rob you.

George R R Martin

#63. Elizabeth Blackwell, "with a very slender purse and few introductions of any value," found herself in the "unknown world" of Paris. What made her situation different from that of other American visitors was her profession. She was a doctor - the first American woman to have become a doctor.

David McCullough

#64. You should see the murderous stares I get on the street. Though I think that has less to do with seeing a man carrying a purse and more to do with paisley. Paisley makes everyone cranky.

Lisa Henry

#65. Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.

Orrin Woodward

#66. Do you have it on your person?" my father asked.
"Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse.

Maggie Stiefvater

#67. I dug through my purse for the Glock. There is was, and I realized I'd never set the safety. I decided to consider this a great example of forethought rather than my being the stupidest gun handler on the planet.

Gini Koch

#68. You're never too fat for a new purse.

Nia Vardalos

#69. Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

Og Mandino

#70. I realized he had my car keys."Hey, where did you get those?""We found your purse at the Dairy Queen.""How did you know it was there?""The GPS." He smirked, seeming more like the Jared I knew."You have a GPS tracker on my car?

Alyssa Rose Ivy

#71. I am more impressed by the size of a person's character than the size of their purse.

Charles F. Glassman

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

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#73. Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#74. 'Morsel' is a perfect word. Forming those six letters on the lips and tongue prompts an instantaneous physiological reaction. The mouth waters. The lips purse.

Shawn Amos

#75. My new iPhone, I'm obsessed. My iPod. I love all the Mac crap. AppleTV, I'm crazy about that. I'd rather buy a new gadget than, like, a purse.

Kaley Cuoco

#76. Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.

Thomas Jefferson

#77. Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.'
You threw away my purse.'
I thought it was an enemy.

Obert Skye

#78. You want ass? The cash is first.
You got dead presidents, baby, I got a hearse in my purse.

Roxanne Shante

#79. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Jonathan Swift

#80. As the gay friend in these situations, he always ended up in the corner holding someone's purse.

Damon Suede

#81. Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play.

John Gerstner

#82. Persistence can only break the hearts of those we love and of ourselves as well, not to mention the purse of society that should be spent for the care of others who have not yet lived their allotted time.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#83. She's fine. She has a gun."
"She has a gun."
"On her purse."
"You two, bring gun, to a dinner date?"
"Society is dangerously wild."
"Again, disturbingly romantic in so many different level.

Rea Lidde

#84. & this girl right here? Who knows what she knows? So I'm going through her phone when she go to the bathroom and her purse right there, I don't trust these hoes at all.

Drake

#85. What the hell was going on, why did I care, and why, oh why, did I not carry a pocket rocket in my purse? My girlie bits were still on fire, screaming for release after Mr. Sex God's orgasmic touch.

Lisa Sanchez

#86. I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

William Shakespeare

#87. I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.

Quvenzhane Wallis

#88. Rich women live at such a distance from life that very often they never see their money - the Queen, they say, for instance, never carries a purse.

Elizabeth Bowen

#89. He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

Otto Von Bismarck

#90. I'm not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It's like a man purse. It's a whole thing.

Nick Jonas

#91. 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

#92. Your purse is bulging, Mr. Fox. Tuck it away before you board.

Meljean Brook

#93. I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.

Philippa Gregory

#94. I don't necessarily like wearing lipstick; I just think it's funny to do. I think the darker the better, but it's whatever my girlfriend Kiera has in her purse.

Mac DeMarco

#95. He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.

Petronius

#96. Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your purse and borrow your car without asking.

Karin Slaughter

#97. My depth of purse is not so great
Nor yet my bibliophilic greed,
That merely buying doth elate:
The books I buy I like to read:
Still e'en when dawdling in a mead,
Beneath a cloudless summer sky,
By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed,
The books I read - I like to buy.

A. Edward Newton

#98. Discovered all three in her purse. After

Kathy Reichs

#99. 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

#100. Ann Coulter is living proof that you can't make a silk purse out of a horse's ass

Andrew Breitbart