Pound Quotes

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. (Muhammad Ali)
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. View quote
James A. Garfield
A page of history is worth a pound of logic. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps. View quote
James Thurber
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. View quote
Thomas Fuller
Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. View quote
John Wesley
One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
By no means run in debt take thine own measure. Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty. View quote
George Herbert
An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it. (Cynthia Weil)
To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken. View quote
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued. View quote
Harold Wilson
I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake. View quote
George W. Bush
I leave you with a complaint. Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... well, it's because the national anthem is boring. View quote
Billy Connolly
Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions. View quote
Neil Kinnock
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation.... Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame. View quote
Laura Riding
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers. View quote
Nevil Shute
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning! (Henrik Ibsen)
Here is this mass of jelly - three pound mass of jelly - that you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space, it can contemplate the meaning of infinity, and it can contemplate itself contemplating the meaning of infinity. View quote
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting. View quote
Vitruvius
If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety... View quote
Warren Buffett
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. View quote
Elbert Hubbard