114 Pocket Quotes

Following is our list of pocket quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about empty pockets.

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Famous Pocket Quotes

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket. — Muddy Waters

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

Don't plan with what is in your pocket; plan with what is in God's pocket — Reinhard Bonnke

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket. — American Proverbs

A piece of bread in your pocket is better than a feather in your hat. — Swedish Proverbs

May your heart be light and happy, may your smile be big and wide, and may your pockets always have a coin or two inside! — Irish Proverbs

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse. — Benjamin Franklin

[On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor. — Annie Oakley

Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket — Pharrell Williams

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket. - Lee Trevino

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket. — Lee Trevino

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world. — Louise Brooks

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist. — Alistair Begg

Short Pocket Quotes

  • You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Never put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket. — Unknown
  • Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket — Chinmayananda Saraswati
  • Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Find your speed, maintain your velocity, keep it up, keep it consistent, and stay in the pocket. — Sonny Barger
  • I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. — Woody Allen
  • A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to. — Louis J. Camuti
  • The heaviest burden is an empty pocket. — Yiddish Proverbs
  • You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket. — Jude Law
  • Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? — Mae West

Pocket Image Quotes

Pocket quote Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul.
Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul.

Empty Pocket Quotes

I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket. — Victor Hugo

Empty pockets make empty heads. — William Carlos Williams

Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive. — Norman Vincent Peale

Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket. — Alec-Tweedie

What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets. — Lord Byron

January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety. — Ovid

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. — Charles Caleb Colton

When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart — Dana Reinhardt

Empty Pockets Quotes

my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months. — Susanna Centlivre

I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same. — Immaculee Ilibagiza

They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well. ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Hands In Pocket Quotes

I remember when I fell from my first bike: There were no 'Are you okays?' and rarely 'Are you alrights?' Just dirt in my pockets, handful of gravel... That's when I realized that getting up is only half the battle. — Big K.R.I.T.

It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich. — Paul Harvey

If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped. — Bill Haywood

If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. . . . — Joseph James Ettor

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute. — Robert Capa

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket - The road to success is always under construction — Lily Tomlin

Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand. — Albert Einstein

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. — Ambrose Bierce

Hope is a pocket of possibility. I'm holding it in my hand. — Tahereh Mafi

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it. — Mark Twain

Pocket Watches Quotes

I think for many of us - speaking for just a pocket of the country - we trusted Obama. So when you leave your baby with your mom to watch, you don't run home and check the nanny cam. But now we've left the baby with Gary Busey, so we're going to be a lot more on it. — John Mulaney

Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with. — Bill Vaughan

My personal opinion...is that pocket watches will almost completely disappear and that wrist watches will replace them definitively! I am not mistaken in this opinion and you will see that I am right. — Hans Wilsdorf

That's where I'm comfortable - playing a jackass on the scene, rolling in with my pocket watch and my buffoon hairdo, with my shoes. — Alan Tudyk

I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets! — Ian Holloway

He did look like the Monopoly man, but it was smooth. I thought he was going to pull a monocle out. That would have been awesome. And did you see the pocket watch? That was incredible. — Richard Sherman

Ask questions then talk over answers, shout loudly you love everyone, try and hug people, confide in them that you are a sheep, offer them the last grass in your pockets. Then watch with a smile as they pretend you aren't there, and whisper you must be crazy, because you want to make friends. — Craig Stone

Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch. — Ruta Sepetys

I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun greanades concealed in variouse pockets. Anything else, Butler? — Eoin Colfer

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it. — Unknown

Pocketbook Quotes

People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time. — Martin Luther

It's not where you start but where you finish. — April Heinrichs

Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values. — Al Sharpton

A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul. — Jesse Livermore

Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook. — Robert Ringer

A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook — B. C. Forbes

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson. — Willie Mays

Don't tell me you're trusting God until you trust Him with your pocketbook. — J. Vernon McGee

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook. — Francis James Grimke

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More Pocket Quotes

There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation. — Walter E. Williams

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair. — Cameron Diaz

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. — Booker T. Washington

The people are divided into more than 200 ethnic groups, of which the largest is the Bantu. There are several hundred languages, but the widespread use of French bridges that gap to a degree. King Leopold of Belgium used it as his personal property from which to steal its natural resources to line his pockets. Belgian colonial rule made the British and French versions look positively benign and was ruthlessly brutal from start to finish, with few attempts to build any sort of infrastructure to help the inhabitants. When the Belgians left in 1960 they left behind little chance of the country holding together. The civil wars began immediately. — Tim Marshall

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria. — Mario Batali

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

Over the next five years, DARPA’s biohybrid programs advanced at an astonishing pace. Microprocessor technology was doubling in capacity every eighteen months. By June 29, 2007, when Apple rereleased its first-generation iPhone, Americans could now carry in their pockets more technology than NASA had when it sent astronauts to the moon. — Annie Jacobsen

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate. — Jim Ramstad

There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a Bible in his pocket it would hardly be possible to drown. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. — Frederick Douglass

A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented. — Rachel Maddow

They say 'life is precious'. To who? To you, when you're young and you've got a few dollars in your pocket. Tell that to the 90-year-old lying awake at the graveyard shift in the nursing home, groaning with dementia. The only reason he hasn't killed himself is that he hasn't figured out a way he can do it with pudding. — Doug Stanhope

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

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

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency. — Charlton Heston

PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with. — Sayings

It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you. — Lady Gaga

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. — Ray Davies

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved. — George Washington

I believe in the immortality of the Theatre, it is a most joyous place to hide, for all those who have secretly put their childhood in their pockets and run off and away with it, to play on to the end of their days. — Max Reinhardt

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. — Indian Proverbs

I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.' — Jude Law

The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something. — Olivia Munn

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