Empty Purse Quotes & Sayings

For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty. — R. Scott Bakker

When the purse becomes empty, the mind becomes full of issues. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Infect everyone with your smile; it will make the world happy. — Debasish Mridha

Giving tells the Universe that you believe you are provided for. For even as you empty your purse, you fear not. The act alone is a demonstration of faith that you will remain whole, that your coffers will be replenished, and that love is what matters most. And for whomsoever believes these things to be true, it shall become their reality, and abundance shall be showered upon them unceasingly, as if the heavens had opened up. — Mike Dooley

The Evejah tells us: When a man's purse is empty, his rivals grow bolder. — Peter V. Brett

He'd come to Styria looking for honest work. But when the purse runs empty, dishonest work has to do. — Joe Abercrombie

A dress is a weapon. It must dazzle his eye, raise his temperature ... and empty his purse. — Loretta Chase

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

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

In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
That old perplexity an empty purse,
Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse. — William Butler Yeats

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

I more proudly take a speck from a man with empty pockets," said Sabetha, "than riches from a man whose purse stays heavy. — Scott Lynch

A good threat is worth a thousand tests. — Boris Beizer

The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber. — Juvenal

Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye. — Sathya Sai Baba

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world. — Louise Brooks

In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it. — Charles Dickens

A Chihuahua. They're good. If you lose one, just empty out your purse. — Jean Carroll

Better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one. — David Crockett

Science and industry, and their progress, might turn out to be the most enduring thing in the modern world. Perhaps any speculation about a coming collapse of science and industry is, for the present and for a long time to come, nothing but a dream; perhaps science and industry, having caused infinite misery in the process, will unite the world - I mean condense it into a single unit, though one in which peace is the last thing that will find a home. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I picked up the blue tube again, unscrewed the cap, and squeezed a perfect line of paint onto the palate. As soon as I brushed it on the canvas, I was responsible for it, for the inevitable imperfections. My world had always been like that paint, left on a palate. That color was a passive observer. But not it wanted to make something of itself. And I was terrified. — Kate Scelsa

The bashful beggar has an empty purse. — William Cranch Bond

You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators. — Heather Brooke

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. — Laozi

They'd had to empty their pockets and turn over Aunt Val's purse to the security guard. That way, I wouldn't be tempted to try to kill anyone with her lip gloss and her travel-size pack of tissues. — Rachel Vincent

I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse. — Nicholas Breton

Loving does not empty the heart, nor giving empty the purse. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see ... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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

There is a vast difference between having some coin and no coin. There is a feeling of helplessness that comes from an empty purse. — Patrick Rothfuss

This is the woman I'm t' marry! Where have ye been all me life, me love?"
And without a blink, I replied, "Don't start with me, ye scoundrel! If ye come with an empty purse, ye can leave now, fer I'd rather be unwed than unfed. — Karen Hawkins