Top 100 Quotes About Purses

#1. 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.

William Shakespeare

#2. Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.

Frank Luntz

#3. The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. 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

#5. The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

Samuel Smiles

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

William Cowper

#7. The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.

David Gerrold

#8. She fist bumped me, I say, pointing at Six. It's not my fault. She hates purses and she fist bumped me, then made me push her on the damn merry-go-round ... I'm into you because you're awesome. And because you let me accidentally touch your boob.

Colleen Hoover

#9. I'd love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I'd like to have an everything line!

Bethany Cosentino

#10. My purse, like all purses, seems to have a traveling black hole in it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#11. A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.

John Stuart Mill

#12. Thieves are always the most careful of their purses.

Robert Jordan

#13. A light purse is a heavy curse.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. Never without a shilling in my purse.

Horace

#15. Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

Dave Hickey

#16. I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

Matthew Henry

#17. O Heavenly Children, you chant God's name but you have forgotten him. He does not want your verses, or the coins from your purses, but for you to love and embrace each other. To uphold truth, justice and peace - and to respect your father and mother, fellow sisters and brothers.

Suzy Kassem

#18. If I could go back to be shot in place of Avery, I would do so."
"I know," I whisper.
"Not merely that I would do so, I would exalt to do so." She purses her lips, stares into nothing. "In both a dark and a bright way, I would exalt to take that death as my own.

Carolyn Crane

#19. I now realise how liberating all-inclusive resorts are. No carrying huge handbags anywhere. No having to worry about purses being pinched. No totting up the price in your head and fretting that you've spent too much.

Jane Green

#20. The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

William Cranch Bond

#21. A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#22. I always encourage our people and young business people that I meet to have a respect for cash, keeping some in their pockets and purses at all times. To me, that's essential.

Muhtar Kent

#23. I'm thinking balls are to men, what purses are to women. It's just a little bag but we'd feel naked in public without it.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#24. When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth ...

Gertrude Stein

#25. Be a gold-medal multitasker. You should be able to discuss the new Ludacris video while correcting the merchandising spreadsheets, picking the right shade of snakeskin for next season's mini-purses and catching the dog at the same time!

Kimora Lee Simmons

#26. Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

Victor Hugo

#27. The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#28. Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.

Lauren Conrad

#29. A guy once told me that girls' purses reminded him of spiders.

P.C. Cast

#30. Women should never carry purses in the Metro or on the street in Paris. Unless the bag is purely for show, that is. Money, credit cards and ID should never be put in a purse.

James Laxer

#31. Use law and physic only for necessity; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves unto weak bodies, and light purses; they are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.

Francis Quarles

#32. I'm not as klutzy as I used to be ... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time.

Shelley Long

#33. Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

Seneca The Younger

#34. If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.

Mark Rippetoe

#35. I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.

Mackenzie Davis

#36. Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#37. The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first.

Drake

#38. He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

James Howell

#39. Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

#40. The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

#41. I'm so glad Courtney Love is here; I left my crack in my other purse.

Sarah Silverman

#42. For their love
Llies in their purses, and whoso empties them
By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.

William Shakespeare

#43. I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

Thomas Jefferson

#44. I looked at the things people think they own. I didn't take things very often, but I liked to move them. Car keys, purses, glasses, one shoe out of a pair. The

Bryn Greenwood

#45. Who want to benefit from the commonwealth must contribute to the common purse.

Babatunde Fashola

#46. The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life.

Graham Greene

#47. Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.

Juvenal

#48. Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets.

Lee Child

#49. A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

Miguel De Cervantes

#50. Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

Benjamin Franklin

#51. If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#52. Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings

John Motson

#53. 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

#54. Money Chiefs, loud and long notes are not songs. Silent snow wets Earth, seeds grow, flowers' honey purses seek neither wealth nor power, and the forest's quiet wisdom needs no wind to blow.

Frederic M. Perrin

#55. I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Isabella Rossellini

#56. From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.

Harold Wilson

#57. Compensation is counterintuitive: The more treasure you give away to those who serve well, the more treasure will return to you. But few people perceive this simple truth. Most try to keep as much as they can for themselves and give little away. That's why their purses refuse to fatten.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

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

Jean Carroll

#59. The purse is the mirror of the soul.

Anna Quindlen

#60. Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

Charles Churchill

#61. Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.

George Herbert

#62. When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

Theodor Herzl

#63. I'm competitive and I have a messy purse, but otherwise, I like people to think I'm a winner.

Jenny Slate

#64. Don't treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.

Chris Brogan

#65. That's a beautiful purse. I carry a satchel.

Josh Mathews

#66. Im known for snatchin' purses and bombin' churches I get more pussy on accident then most niggas get on purpose

Big L

#67. Kalona's back. The spell worked. One of Neferet's hostages got out. And to say Neferet's pissed is like saying Louis Vuitton makes cute purses. Hello, understatement of the decade.

P.C. Cast

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

John Lyly

#69. When Don King's fighters lose their titles they come back fighting on the undercard for peanuts. King owns all the top heavyweights and we spar against each other but we get charged for it and that comes out of our purses.

Larry Holmes

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

George Herbert

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

Richard Henry Stoddard

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

Julie James

#73. Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness."
"May I ask for a specific example?"
"Fat priests," Royce replied, "with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on the dangers of gluttony and the merits of poverty.

Judith McNaught

#74. Souls and purses, she thinks, these two are obsessed with souls and purses.

Jessie Burton

#75. Where might is, the right is:
Long purses make strong swords.
Let weakness learn meekness:
God save the House of Lords!

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

Juvenal

#77. I'm definitely addicted to purses.

Raven-Symone

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

Horace

#79. 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

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

Marc Chagall

#81. DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than snatching purses for a living, or robbing graves.

Larry Lujack

#82. Progress makes purses out of human skin.

Karl Kraus

#83. 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

#84. Put your toong in your purse.

John Heywood

#85. 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

#86. People like Eunice just never had quite figured out how to get along in the world. They might be perfectly intelligent, but they were subject to speckles and flushes; their purses resembled wastepaper baskets; they stepped on their own skirts.

Anne Tyler

#87. Perhaps he needs the money. Some of the men live too richly for their purses, if you understand me. Fame would allow him large debts, but everything has to be paid back in the end.

Conn Iggulden

#88. I'm one of those people who have everything in their purses.

Bethenny Frankel

#89. Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood

Rocky Marciano

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

George Herbert

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

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#92. Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich

William Shakespeare

#93. 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

#94. The world went on. People left and people died and people went to memorial services and put orange blocks of cheese into their purses. People confessed to you that they were hungry all the time. And then you got up in the morning and pretended that none of it had happened.

Kate DiCamillo

#95. I'm way flashier on Instagram and Snapchat because I feel like that's what people want to see, and that's I've always done, so I'm not going to stop. People want to see my cars and my purses. People love fashion. But that's so not me.

Kylie Jenner

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

Jonathan Swift

#97. Do you promise to help me pack up my apartment and get all my stuff? I have a lot of stuff. A lot. Shoes and purses and clothes and nail polish. I have way more purses than you brought and at least a gatrillion dresses. I can't live without them-'
'I promise to haul your shit around.

Dakota Cassidy

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

Otto Von Bismarck

#99. 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

#100. There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.

Thomas Browne

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