A Quote by Juvenal
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
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The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
[Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.
Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face
The bashful beggar has an empty purse.
My sister and I used to sing at weddings. We would sing 'When a Man Loves a Woman' to the bride. We'd do it right before the garter ceremony.
It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
A Chihuahua. They're good. If you lose one, just empty out your purse.
My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.
I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and shout and curse at the man to steer clear. If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world, no one will oppose you, no one will seek to harm you. Thus is the perfect man - his boat is empty.
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