Famous quotes containing the word pockets:
“Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each others pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.”
—Ambrose Bierce (18421914)
“It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.”
—Douglas Hurd (b. 1930)
“They would have me as familiar with mens pockets as their
gloves or their handkerchiefs; which makes much against my
manhood, if I should take from anothers pocket to put into
mine; for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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