(64 quotes found)
“Who steals my purse, steals trash, but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.”
William Shakespeare
“Moderate profits fill the purse.”
Italian Proverb
“Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; / For the apparel oft proclaims the man.”
“You can't make a silk purse from a sows ear”
American Proverb
“The good Paymaster is Lord of another man's Purse”
Benjamin Franklin
“Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that”
“Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse”
“Little thieves are hanged by the neck and great thieves by the purse”
Proverb
“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 R. Augustine
“Nor Eye in a letter, nor Hand in a purse, nor Ear in the secret of another”
