Quotes of Powder - somelinesforyou

“ Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ 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

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

- Unknown

“ Take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves. ”

- Unknown

“ An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow. ”

- Richard Baxter

“ The governor has said that we have gained 360 million pounds. ”

- Kenny Rogers

“ They wrote that I'd gained 30 pounds over the summer and lost it in a week because I was dating three guys at once! ”

- Yasmine Bleeth

“ The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit — that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence. ”

- Charles Buxton

“ Pound-for-pound and inch-for-inch, Hicks is the best player in America. ”

- Rick Pitino

“ It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. ”

- Laurence Peter

“ An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. ”

- Michael Korda

“ When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty. ”

- Woody Allen

“ 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

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

- Fatty Arbuckle

“ When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape. ”

- Charisma Carpenter

“ Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. ”

- Bible

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

- Henry de Bracton

“ Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument. ”

- Randall Jarrell

“ MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic. ”

- Eddie Izzard

“ An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. ”

- Michael Korda

“ An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow. ”

- Richard Baxter

“ In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love. ”

- John Ray

“ I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence. ”

- Charles Buxton

“ In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds. ”

- William Lilly

“ We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories. ”

- Orville Wright

“ Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? ”

- Norman Cousins

“ I see a little better grooming. Some might even be trying a little powder. ”

- Howell Heflin

“ I bought some powdered water yesterday. I don't know what to add. ”

- Steven Wright

“ At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. ”

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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