Quotes on Purses

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

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.