Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
"If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse."
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Purses
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Harold Wilson
Politician
"From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued."
Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"He who has his thumb on the purse has the power."
James Monroe
Politician
"The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you."
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"The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first."
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"When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse."
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"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
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"Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse."
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"Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own."
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"Put money in thy purse."
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"I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter."
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"Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses."
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"Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse."
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"You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."
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"Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open."
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"The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ."
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"Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit."
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"A light purse is a heavy curse."
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"Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about."
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"A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character"
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"would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick."
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"I'm not as klutzy as I used to be... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time."
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"Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding."
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"I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses."
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