Penny in pocket is a merry companion. [ Proverb ]
I love you well, but touch not my pocket. [ Proverb ]
The heart contracts as the pocket expands. [ Bovee ]
Abundance is a blessing to the wise;
The use of riches in discretion lies:
Learn this, ye men of wealth - a heavy purse
In a fool's pocket is a heavy curse. [ Cumberland ]
Can pocket states, or fetch or carry kings. (Gold) [ Pope ]
A friend in court is as good as a penny in pocket. [ Proverb ]
Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. [ Horace Greeley ]
Misers put their back and their belly into their pocket. [ Proverb ]
He had better put his horns in his pocket than blow them. [ Proverb ]
A crown in pocket does you more credit than an angel spent. [ Proverb ]
A gentleman should have more in his pocket than on his back. [ Proverb ]
If you be not content, put your hand in your pocket and please yourself. [ Proverb ]
How delightful to make a few blots of ink, representing a little thought, bring money into one's pocket. [ Joseph G. Baldwin ]
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. [ Marcus Antoninus ]
Why, at this rate, a fellow that has but a groat in his pocket may have a stomach capable of a ten-shilling ordinary. [ Congreve ]
Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket. [ Goldsmith ]
Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler - a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hardearned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity. [ Paulding ]
Yorick sometime?, in his wild way of talking, would say that gravity was an arrant scoundrel, and, he would add, of the most dangerous kind, too, because a sly one; and that he verily believed more honest well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. [ Sterne ]
Mr. Johnson had never, by his own account, been a close student, and used to advise young people never to be without a book in their pocket, to be read at bye-times, when they had nothing else to do. It has been by that means,
said he to a boy at our house one day, that all my knowledge has been gained, except what I have picked up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk.
[ Mrs. Piozzi ]
It is to be hoped that, with all the modern improvements, a mode will be discovered of getting rid of bores: for it is too bad that a poor wretch can be punished for stealing your pocket handkerchief or gloves, and that no punishment can be inflicted on those who steal your time, and with it your temper and patience, as well as the bright thoughts that might have entered into your mind (like the Irishman who lost the fortune before he had got it), but were frightened away by the bore. [ Byron ]