#pocket

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#count #give #hidden #hours #keep

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#favorable #head #pocket

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#act #borrow #borrowing #examine #him

I can explain that shot. Arnold moved his wallet to the other pocket. ↗

— Ben Crenshaw

#explain #his #i #i can #moved

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#always #ample #anytime #aside #balanced

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it. ↗

— Ted Kulongoski

#back #bearing #come #fix #go

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#comb #concert #flannel #hair #i

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets. ↗

— Gary Hart

#get #government #hands #off #out

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified. ↗

— Anjelica Huston

#dublin #find #more #more and more #old

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#allow #because #being #burn #cash