Pound Quotes
405 Pound quotes by 346 unique authors
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An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.
— Benjamin Franklin
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At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy…
— Steve Almond
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Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting…
— Bob Dylan
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The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, /…
— Edward Lear
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But I was thinking about this, the Obamas want to adopt a stray dog from the pound. And I think that is admirable. I believe…
— David Letterman
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Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every…
— Mordecai Ham
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Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil gets harder and…
— Joel Salatin
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I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.
— Todd Rundgren
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The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be…
— Dave Barry
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If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with…
— David Hare
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In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with five…
— Daniel Pauly
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You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your brain, that three-pound…
— Isaac Marion
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The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on…
— Guy Ritchie
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
— Thomas Fuller
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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
— James A. Garfield
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We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines?…
— Joan Collins
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Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
— Tommy Cooper
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The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
— Bruce Dickinson
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Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
— Sylvia Earle
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It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU…
— Nigel Farage
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Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the…
— Buddy Hackett
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For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until…
— Robert Harris
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Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have…
— Damien Hirst
Who Wrote These Pound Quotes
346 authors contributed a total of 405 Pound Quotes, led by these top contributors: