Pounds Quotes

756 Pounds quotes by 643 unique authors

Then they show up at the door and the reality is that they are 5-foot-8, 240 pounds and have not run a mile in years.… — Charlene Li
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses. — Isaac D'Israeli
An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught. — Benjamin Franklin
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds… — James Russell Lowell
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. — Joseph Addison
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take… — Lord Chesterfield
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
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
The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, /… — Edward Lear
What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or… — Emily Carr
I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds. — Oscar De La Hoya
I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse. — Julie Newmar
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
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
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
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
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
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
I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks. — Art Donovan
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
How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring… — Ruben Papian
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
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
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. — Thomas Fuller
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she… — Diane von Furstenberg

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