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If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
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A car for every purse and purpose.
- Alfred P. Sloan
After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,
and after half an hour
I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
- the movie Take the Money and Run (1969)
If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with...
you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear,
you know.
- Dennis Weaver
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the
lean purse or for the fat woman:
the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
- Katherine Fullerton Gerould
Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.
- Paul Lynde
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear
is to begin with a silk sow.
The same is true of money.
- Norman Ralph Augustine
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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
- Thomas More
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is
drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone,
and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
- George Washington
I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends,
and empty purse.
- Nicholas Breton
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil
as those who steal from the public purse.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
Open your mouth and purse cautiously,
and your stock of wealth and reputation shall,
at least in repute, be great.
- John Zimmerman
Inspired by the purse rather than the soul,
the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works
put out by every day American publishers.
- Alma Gluck
When a man meets catastrophe on the road,
he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.
- Margaret Turnbull
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
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
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
- Victor Hugo
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
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
I'm sickened by all religions.
Religion has divided people.
I don't think there's any difference between the pope
wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking
purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
- Howard Stern
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
Balls are to men what purses are to women.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist,
which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
- Claire Bloom
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift
to the individual the burden of pursing his own education.
This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get
over our odd conviction that education is what goes
on in school buildings and nowhere else.
- John W. Gardner
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is unlimited.
Your world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
Money that is spent or given away returns multiplied.
The more love that is given, the more love returns.
The more a helping hand is given, the more hands
are strengthened and empowered to help.
We can help each other to all be winners.
We can all have food, and jobs, and love, and happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
- George Herbert
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment
on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum
of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
- Andy Grove
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less
of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
- Thornton Wilder
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced
that my looks were hideous.
Adolescence is painful for everyone,
I know,
but mine was plain weird.
- Uma Thurman
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising
food as raising money to buy food.
- Frank Howard Clark
Time is the coin of your life.
It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.
Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars.
The rest I just squandered.
- George Best
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
- William Wordsworth
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan Perlis
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent,
those funds are well spent.
- Carl Karcher
No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee,
I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
- Danielle Berry
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
- Colin Powell
So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.
- Jeff Gordon
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
- George Burns
I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the
very end of 1978 for half of my annual income.
I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.
- Bill Budge
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
- Sigmund Freud
I have to be alone very often.
I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until
Monday morning alone in my apartment.
That's how I refuel.
- Audrey Hepburn
I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
- Tammy Duckworth
I've spent my career trying to help people without
connections understand what's going on so that they
have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.
- Allan Sloan
Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how
much will be spent for household and other purposes.
Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.
- Walter Ulbricht
There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do,
because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines,
which isn't apparent in the other books.
- Joe Sacco
Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through.
Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
- Richard Wagner
I later spent...
five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey,
always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting
a legal argument for release.
- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Researchers have found very little difference between
men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.
- Kate Fox
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent
in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.
- Mark Kennedy
If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt,
they're lying.
It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.
- Sharon Osbourne
I miss England.
I miss the weather.
I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour.
I'm ready to come home.
- Sting
We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young
so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.
- Graeme Le Saux
I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young.
My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.
- Emeril Lagasse
I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub,
I would just get fantastic realizations about myself,
and they were so valuable and liberating.
- Leonard Orr
I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.
- Donna Shalala
Even in high school I was very interested in history -
why people do the things they do.
As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
- George Lucas
I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll,
because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.
- Jerry Hall
I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens
in my underwear with nine other guys.
They were long days.
But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.
- Michael Bergin
No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.
- Bryant H. McGill
On the average, five times as many people read the
headline as read the body copy.
When you have written your headline,
you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.
- David Ogilvy
So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack
Charlton in the car park practising my skills.
- Craig Johnston
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived
so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
- Marcel Proust
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend,
it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
- Gene Tierney
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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