C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Purse
Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
Haliburton.
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
Shakespeare.
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
Juvenal.
How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul’s seat and true pineal gland of the body social—I mean a purse?
Carlyle.