Search in quotes: pocket

14 quotes

Pocket calculator batteries that have lasted all semester...

Pocket calculator batteries that have lasted all semester will fail during the math final.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about tests, education, school, mathematics

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.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about poetry, recollection, nature, memory, imagination, poets

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

Quote by Charles Babbage about salary, rightness

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in...

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Quote by Charles Dickens about prejudice

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but...

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.

Quote by Anjelica Huston about old, olderness

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief...

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

Quote by Juvenal about oratory, thieves, face

Your Car Keys are always in the pocket of the hand that...

Your Car Keys are always in the pocket of the hand that is fullest.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars

The authority of a person is inversely proportional to...

The authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of functions in his pocket calculator.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about authority, numbers, people

Whisky by the way circulates more freely in Westport than...

Whisky by the way circulates more freely in Westport than is altogether safe in a place where every man carries a loaded pistol in his pocket.

Quote by Francis Parkman about man

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads...

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about heads, prison

Life is a memory stick in my pocket.

Life is a memory stick in my pocket.

Quote by Ionuț Caragea about life, memory

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country...

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

Quote by Antonio Banderas about good luck, country, money

Love is a Flower of forget-me-not located in the heart's...

Love is a Flower of forget-me-not located in the heart's pocket.

VQuote by Valeria Mahoc about garden, heart, love

A man is not wealthy, simply by the contents of his...

A man is not wealthy, simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead, by the richness of his heart.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about heart, wealth, man

Last quotes

You shoot my finger, trigger finger, boss finger, Boian... (Anghel Damian)

I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am.... (Kim Ung-Yong)

Everything that men do or think concerns the satisfaction... (Albert Einstein)

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of... (Albert Einstein)

Top quotes

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the... (William Blake)

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is... (Henry Ford)

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the... (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett)

Random quotes

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by... (C. Northcote Parkinson)

It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was,... (Mark Oliphant)

In the eyes of your professor, you are ALWAYS wrong, so... (Edward A. Murphy)

Certainly the idea of an international police force... (Lester B. Pearson)

Authors

Famous quotes

Folklore