Quotes of Pound - somelinesforyou

“ Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. ”

- Unknown

“ To think's audacity. God only has that right and privilege. Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that. ”

- Herman Melville

“ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table. ”

- Unknown

“ A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry - that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three-Mile Island. ”

- Johnny Carson

“ Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest. ”

- Joan Chittister

“ I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds. ”

- Andy Gibb

“ How is it you can gain two pounds by eating half a pound of fudge? ”

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“ Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. ”

- Tommy Cooper

“ A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. ”

- Dutch

“ An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat. ”

- Unknown

“ It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds. ”

- Cindy Gardner

“ An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. ”

- Henry de Bracton

“ By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me. ”

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

“ The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in our local communities. ”

- Tony Blair

“ What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds. ”

- Cindy Garner

“ A good sweat, with the blood pounding through my body, makes me feel alive, revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others. ”

- Arthur Dobrin

“ An ounce of intuition is worth a pound of tuition. ”

- Unknown

“ An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. ”

- Unknown

“ Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. ”

- John Wesley

“ Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way. ”

- Henry James

“ I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me, which is pounding, saying, "Keep going. Someone must be on top; why not you?". ”

- George S. Patton

“ I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty, and what's more, I never did. ”

- Fatty Arbuckle

“ I have accepted fear as a part of life — specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ”

- Erica Jong
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