Quotes with pocket

  • Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

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  • Joey Adams Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.
    Joey Adams
    American comedian (1911 - 1999)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Horace Greeley Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
    Horace Greeley
    American editor (1811 - 1872)
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  • Bill Janklow Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.
    Bill Janklow
    American politician (1939 - 2012)
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  • Charles Dickens He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ashley Montagu Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Adam Sandler I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Woody Allen I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • E. B. White It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Andrew J. Bacevich 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.
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Agatha Christie One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.
    Death in the Clouds (1935) ch. 25
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Bev Perdue President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Carl Safina Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Aaron Neville So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
    Aaron Neville
    American soul and country singer (1941 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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