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"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked." »Lord Chesterfield
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"Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch." »Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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"Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch." »Jane Austen
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"watch your thoughts they become words. watch your words they become actions. watch your actions they become habits. watch your habits they become character. watch your character it becomes your destiny." »Patrick Overton
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"To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want." »Ernest Hemingway
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"As we were driving, we saw a sign that said 'Watch For Rocks.' Marta said it should read 'Watch For PRETTY Rocks.' I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke---just to get out of writing a simple letter And I thought I was lazy" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch." »Hermione Gingold, from a press report, 1973
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"You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket." »John Adams, Instructions to his son Johnny in the biography "John Adams" by David McCullough (p. 19)
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"A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Feel for others--in your pocket." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket." »Raymond Chandler
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"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." »Chinese Proverb
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"With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too." »Jewish Proverb
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"The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket." »Kin [F. McKinney] Hubbard
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"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over twice and put it in your pocket." »Frank McKinney Hubbard
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"Take your hands out of your pocket, because life may push you hardly at any time!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket." »Kin Hubbard
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"...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down." »Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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"What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket." »Karl Kraus
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"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." »Thomas Jefferson
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"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." »Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-82
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"You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say." »John N. Mitchell
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"He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike." »William Shakespeare
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"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike." »William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II scene 1
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"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped." »Groucho Marx
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"It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is a man with two watches is never quite sure." »Lee Segall
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"The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen." »John Sloan Dickey
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"The days of the digital watch are numbered." »Tom Stoppard
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