Pocket Quotes

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? (Mae West)
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. View quote
Raymond Chandler
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. View quote
Woody Allen
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. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The key issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody. View quote
Studs Terkel
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. View quote
Kin Hubbard
It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket. View quote
Ian Rankin
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. View quote
John Adams
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. View quote
Tennessee Williams
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)
Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?". View quote
Muhammad Ali
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish. View quote
Darrell Royal
Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When I decided to stop, I adopted the method that my father had used when he quit. He would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, and every time he felt like smoking, he would pull out the cigarette and confront it: «Who stronger? You? Me?» Always the answer was the same: «I stronger.» Back the cigarette would go, until the next craving. It worked for him, and it worked for me. View quote
Kirk Douglas
He hadn't a cent in his pocket, but he had faith ! View quote
Paulo Coelho
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. View quote
Harold Wilson
Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer. View quote
Merton Miller
From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid. View quote
Billy Joel
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. (Charles Macklin)
Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, "Did you fall?" He said, "No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket." View quote
Billy Connolly
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. View quote
W. C. Fields