Purse may also refer to:
- Purse (horse racing), the total amount of money paid out to the owners of horses racing at a particular track over a given period
- Purse (naval warfare), a monetary reward paid out to the crew of a ship for capturing an enemy vessel
- Prize money, or "purse money", any type of monetary award given as a prize
- Purse bid, in Boxing the aggregate prize money
- Purse (surname), a surname
- Purse State Park, a state park in Charles County, Maryland
- Privy Purse, money in the past British monarchy raised from the income of the Crown Estate lands and holdings
- La Bourse ("purse" in French), a short story by French novelist Honoré de Balzac
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Famous quotes containing the word purse:
“Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy, rich, not gaudy,
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Beware the/easy griefs, that fool and fuel nothing./It is too easy to cry “AFRIKA!”/and shock thy street,/and purse thy mouth,/and go home to thy “Gunsmoke,” to/thy “Gilligan’s Island” and the NFL.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)