Pockets Proverbs

Sayings about Pockets

Good bargains empty your pockets.~ German Proverb

He who has an egg in his pocket does not dance.~ Gabonese Proverb

The devil dances in an empty pocket ~ Traditional Proverb

If the pocket is empty, the judge is deaf.~ Russian Proverb

With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.~ Yiddish Proverb

A book is a garden carried in the pocket.~ Arabian Proverb

If your pocket gets empty, your faults will be many.~ Libyan Proverb

A lawyer looks at you with one eye, but he looks at your pocket with two.~ Jamaican Proverb

The happiness in your pocket, don’t spend it all.~ Chinese Proverb

The heaviest burden is an empty pocket.~ Yiddish Proverb

The hands of a lawyer are always in someone’s pocket.~ Indian Proverb

The longest road is the one that leads to your pocket.~ Yiddish Proverb

You can’t keep a word of thanks in your pocket.~ Russian Proverb

The rich man carries God in his pocket, the poor man in his heart.~ Jewish Proverb

Quotations about Pockets

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.~ Kin Hubbard

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? ~ Mae West

People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well. ~ George Matthew Adams

It's diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next. ~ Jolene Blalock

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me. ~ Dave Chappelle

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Feel for others in your pocket.~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep. ~ Will Rogers

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets. ~ Wayne Dyer

It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart.~ Author Unknown

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief ‘s face. ~ Juvenal

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money. ~ Gertrude Stein

He walked around with pockets full of quarters, handing out handfuls to people just to put a smile on their faces.~ Jim Cole

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. ~ Emil Zatopek

Empty pockets make empty heads.~ William Carlos Williams

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. ~ Elizabeth Bowen

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.~ D.H. Lawrence

Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets. ~ Chris Chocola

We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors. ~ Pauline Hanson

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

When you put more money in the pockets of working families, they spend it on groceries, gas, school supplies, and other goods and services. And that helps businesses grow and create jobs. So many forward-looking employers, large and small, understand this. ~ Thomas Perez

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. ~ Lysander Spooner

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets. ~ Gary Hart

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation’s pockets of poverty. ~ Jack Kemp

I never trust a man unless I’ve got his pecker in my pocket.~ Lyndon B. Johnson

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who’s going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it’s more powerful than religion. So it’s going to have to be the vigilante consumer. ~ Anita Roddick

We carry around computers in our pockets. Many people barely use them as phones. We use them as computers. If you think about the future, when you’re traveling around, it’s great to have a lightweight, small form factor. ~ Mitchell Baker

If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer. ~ Martin O'Malley