#purse

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#criminal #crown #daring #diminishes #fortune

I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#asks #autograph #bag #because #carry

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#evil #just #mind #public #public mind

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#concealed #detain #fastened #filled #first

A car for every purse and purpose. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#every #purpose #purse

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#before #books #cannot #exclude #few

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

#come #empty #end #hollow #keeping

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear. ↗

— J. B. Morton

#being #disadvantage #ear #fool #hog

You're never too fat for a new purse. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#never #new #purse #too #you

I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady...take your purse.' ↗

— Emo Philips

#five #here #i #lady #miles