114 Quotes About Pockets

Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

Anyway, it's gone. And there's nothing left in my pocket to charm you. So from now on it's going to have to be tears or nothing I'm afraid. That's all I've got left to tell you see: tears, tears, tears.

Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk.

I've been fined probably more than any driver, and I've probably paid it out of my own pocket more than any driver.

In the prosperous times, you put it in your pocket; in the lean times, you put it in your heart and that's when you discover who you are.